Two decades ago, when Andrew Clement began studying the routes that Canadian internet traffic take, he ran a simple test. Using a tracing tool, he followed data travelling between his University of Toronto office and the Ontario government servers at Queen’s Park, visible from his window.He was surprised to see that the traffic made a detour: it routed hundreds of kilometres away, through Chicago and New York, before returning to Toronto.“It blew my mind when I saw this,” he said. Research that he conducted between 2009 and 2015 found that as much as 25 per cent of Canadian internet traffic…