Our home and digital land: Why “Buy Canadian” must include software, not just steel.
RESCON Newsletter: Residential Builder
November 3rd, 2025 | Page 20
In LandLogic’s feature in the RESCON newsletter, we discuss how Canada’s renewed push to “Buy Canadian” is a positive step toward strengthening domestic supply chains, but it stops short by focusing almost exclusively on physical goods. The invisible infrastructure that governs how we plan, build, and manage land, such as zoning systems, permitting platforms, valuation models, and environmental data, has been largely overlooked. Much of this digital backbone is foreign-built, fragmented, and poorly aligned with Canada’s regulatory realities. In an era where data is as foundational as concrete, true economic resilience requires investing not only in Canadian steel and cement, but also in Canadian-made digital infrastructure.
The case for digital sovereignty is both strategic and practical. Reliance on foreign software exposes critical land and housing data to external laws, creates costly misalignment with local governance, and diverts public dollars away from domestic innovation. More importantly, it undermines Canada’s ability to coordinate housing delivery at scale, standardize data across jurisdictions, and enable AI-driven planning. Extending “Buy Canadian” to software and data infrastructure would strengthen national capacity, modernize permitting, and unlock underused land. As emerging Canadian platforms demonstrate, investing locally in digital systems is not just procurement—it’s partnership, enabling technology that reflects Canadian laws, geography, and priorities, and laying the foundation for building both our physical home and our digital land.
