There's a common thread in all the media, information technology and communication innovations you've just mentioned. They all led to new professions, and new ways of communicating and staying connected to each other, as humans.
The Internet is different, though, because it's dominated by a small group of players. We heard an example of that earlier during the long conversation with Mr. Griffiths on Google. Fair competition with Google is impossible, in my opinion. If I buy an Android cell phone, by definition, I'm in the Google environment. Whether it's through search engines, online software or social media, the American oligopolies keep us trapped in their environments. The evolution of artificial intelligence in those environments is controlled by a small group. That's the problem.
To protect cultural diversity, allow people to discover content created thanks to this diversity, and ensure that our cultural and media industries can compete globally, we'll have no other choice but to create our own infrastructure, as we've done in the past. The audiovisual and radio industry developed its own physical infrastructure, and we control that. The Internet, we don't have much control over. More importantly, we don't control what artificial intelligence relies on, meaning the servers.
Considering the evolution of artificial intelligence, without digital sovereignty, I have very little hope for the survival of Canada's cultural sovereignty.