On this week’s Security Brief, Al Vigier, founder and CEO of Caseway, discusses how the suspension of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD) reflects broader uncertainty in Canada–U.S. defence relations and what that could mean for Canadian defence small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
For a small Canadian defence company, the Pentagon’s decision in May was clarifying. On May 18, U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby announced that Washington was pausing its participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, the 86-year-old advisory body that has coordinated continental defence since Franklin Roosevelt and Mackenzie King created it in 1940. He accused Canada of failing to make credible progress on its defence commitments.
Professor Chang is leading a planned research collaboration with Vancouver-based startup Caseway AI to examine a simple but high-impact question:
If court decisions are made fully searchable and usable by modern AI systems, will self-represented and marginalized people make better legal decisions?