All right.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do appreciate your patience, and I beg the patience of all my colleagues around the table.
I'll get straight to the point. I would like to make an amendment to the motion as it currently stands, Mr. Chair, and I do so with the intention of trying to move us into action, to not go down the same avenues we have gone down before, which have led us effectively to a stalemate, and to try to move us into making sure we can at least move on the issues on which I believe we all agree.
To that end, Mr. Chair, I would like to move that we delete the amendments that were proposed by my honourable colleague from the Bloc Québécois and replace them with the five points that follow.
Mr. Chair, let me just pull up the document that I was working on before Ms. Shanahan yielded the floor to me. I would like to add new clauses and renumber them accordingly, but I will use the numbering that I have in front of me.
My amendments are as follows: “(a) That the committee study the use or possible use of facial recognition technology by various levels of government in Canada, law enforcement agencies, private corporations and individuals; (b) that the committee investigate how this technology will impact the privacy, security and safety of children, seniors and vulnerable populations; (c) that the committee examine the impact of facial recognition technology on racialized communities; (d) that the study include how this technology may be used nefariously, such as a tool for criminal harassment or for other unlawful surveillance purposes; (e) that the committee investigate any possible link, formal or informal, between Canadian law enforcement agencies and private technology corporations and startups, including, but not limited to, Cleaview AI and Palantir; and (g) that the committee examine the impacts of facial recognition technology and the growing power of artificial intelligence.”
Those, Mr. Chair, would be my amendments to replace the amendments that were proposed by Madame Gaudreau.
Thank you, sir.
I will send this also to the clerk.