Shopify’s Leaders Are Pushing Right-Wing Politics in Canada

Canada has tech bros too, like Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke who has a new idea to link voting rights to how much income tax you paid. Rachel Gilmore joins Paris Marx to discuss how Canadian tech companies like Shopify are pushing terrible right-wing policy ideas while influencing Mark Carney’s agenda.

Rachel Gilmore is an award-winning independent journalist and creator of the Bubble Pop newsletter.

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• You can now pre-order Paris’s new book Hyperscale.
• Rachel has written about Tobi Lütke’s most recent awful ideas, including why it matters what the Canadian tech elite say.
• Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be implementing policies for tech oligarchs.
• Press Progress has done reporting on conservative media outlets platforming white nationalists.
• Check out the recent episode Paris did with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood for a deeper dive on Canada’s AI policies.

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