David Johnston, Canada’s next governor general, could make digital issues one of his top priorities, his colleagues say—but it’s unlikely he’ll take positions on controversial issues like copyright.

“We’ll have a very eloquent governor general who can really highlight a lot of issues related to both digital [issues] and education ... That bodes very well for both those areas, simply because they have a spokesperson who knows them in such great detail,” Tom Jenkins, executive chairman and chief strategy officer of Open Text Corp. and Johnston’s friend, told The Wire Report in an interview.

Jenkins has collaborated with Johnston for more than a decade through partnerships between his company and the University of Waterloo, where Johnston has been president and vice-chancellor since 1999. Johnston also served on OpenText’s board of directors from 2002 to 2004.

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