I've witnessed this firsthand. Its because Microsoft has consultants embedded in the government and they have so many of the higher up bureaucrats under their thumb so brainwashed that yes, they laugh at attempts to deMicrosoft. Its ludicrous to them to abandon Microsoft.

Every country not the USA should be embracing Linux regardless of trade disputes. A foreign company putting there proprietary software in your country's government infrastructure always come with uncomfortable security realities, you can be held hostage in an ecosystem that may no longer match your goals quickly, it becomes financial handcuffs.

As a Canadian, I don't care to make Israel a reason to do or not do. If Canada was or is to join it should never have been a pet project of an elitest investment banker PM; Canada should join only if there was a significant grassroots push to join. Guess what, that never existed in Canada. It's just too typical of a Liberal government in Canada to not do what it campaigned on and once elected do a bunch of crap like this it was never elected to do.