Changing U.S. relationship has thrust Canada's data sovereignty into the spotlight

Open this photo in gallery: Craig McLellan, CEO of ThinkON, says that ‘people are realizing that as long as [their] data is residing on a cloud infrastructure owned by an American company, they really aren't safe.’Blair Gable/The Globe and Mail Data sovereignty has long been a selling point for Craig McLellan's Toronto cloud-computing company, ThinkOn Inc. But lately, the topic has come up a lot more often - and it has everything to do with Canada's damaged and uncertain relationship with the United States. In this case, sovereignty means that data belonging to a Canadian entity is subject to the…