Dr. Argyri Panezi is Canada Research Chair in Digital Information Law and Policy and associate professor at the University of New Brunswick’s Faculty of Law. Her research explores how emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and mixed reality, are reshaping legal systems, access to justice and digital rights. At UNB, she directs the Legal Innovation Laboratory, where her team studies digital justice design, privacy and inclusive policy-making for underserved communities, particularly in Atlantic Canada. Her work aims to guide the development of secure, resilient and accessible digital infrastructures for judicial services. She is also affiliated with UNB's Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity. Dr. Panezi holds a law degree from the University of Athens, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. She has held academic and research positions at Stanford University, NYU School of Law and IE Law School in Madrid.

‍

This contribution offers a regulatory and normative analysis of Canada’s recent efforts to articulate a technological sovereignty narrative and agenda, emerging from a historically and geopolitically rooted need to navigate between two distinct yet influential models: those of the United States and the European Union. Canada’s geographical and economic interdependencies with the United States situate it firmly within a North American sphere shaped by security priorities, market integration, and infrastructure interconnection. In the context of a shifting geopolitical landscape, Canada emerges as both ambitious and pragmatic about strengthening its technological capacity, recognizing its direct link to national security and strategic autonomy. Across the Atlantic, Canada engages with a different, more normative framework of technology and cyber governance advanced by the European Union, widely regarded as the key driver of the re-emergence of the technological sovereignty narrative. Does Canada’s positioning between the United States and the European Union reflect an ongoing process of selective adaptation, or the emergence of a distinct and autonomous narrative of technological sovereignty? This paper argues that the dual navigation creates a unique strategic space in which Canada can articulate its own narrative, one that seeks to reconcile interdependence with resilience and strategic control.

‍