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Benjamin Bergen

Benjamin Bergen is the President of the Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI), a national, non-partisan business council for the 21st century economy, led by over 150 CEOs of Canada’s fastest growing homegrown technology scale-ups. CCI is focused on optimizing the growth of Canada’s innovation-based sector, and Benjamin leads the execution of its ambitious economic development agenda. Benjamin is a member of Digital Journal's Insight Forum.

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The comfort of collapse: Why Canada’s defence primes are the wrong answer for a new era

Canada risks spending billions building yesterday’s military. We need bold defence innovation, not faster delivery of outdated systems.

Benjamin BergenAugust 8, 2025