It's interesting, coming from a department that's just spent a lot of time dealing with AI.
If you look at it, in a lot of our ecosystem, Canada became a leader in AI primarily through the strength of our early research. That research, through luminaries like Yoshua Bengio and others, actually provided an advantage in our own capacity to understand the technology.
Our colleagues over at Industry and my colleague Mark Schaan and Minister Solomon have been leading on the development of an AI strategy. We've been very strong advocates—and I owe this to my colleagues—around what it means for cultural industries, for artistic industries, and that's exactly why we're going to be participating. We've helped set up the summit that will take place with the cultural and artistic industry in only a few weeks.
We think that dialogue has to happen. We think that we as a department have a responsibility to be the voice of artistic and cultural industry as the government thinks about AI, and we're playing that role very strongly. We look forward to continuing an ongoing dialogue with a sector that will be, or potentially will be, so impacted by the advance of not only AI, but digital technologies generally as well.