equivalent to 13.7 percent of Canada's estimated the rest of the open global economy, tax free, duty free and royalty free. By doing so, in the post-2010 period, the United States became the world's that cover costs, including the cost of capital. Canada's GDP of 42.45 percent). This amounts t0 5.83 percent of Canada's 2025 GDP, which Unfortunately, this reality must be inferred because (SNA). Under the latest iteration of the protocols for measuring GDP (UN Statistical Division 2025), → At the same time, the boost to Canada's GDP the “sum of costs" approach (ibid., section 2.26 et seq.). Let us call this the cost of “datafication." (Ciuriak 2024b). The United States was the first value. Under this approach, the contribution of data data engine into the world's data (excluding China, the costs incurred to capture, process and exploit it. There are no additional returns (i.e., above- built up its own digital platforms behind it). The normal profits that constitute economic rents).