Thank you for the excellent question.
Yes, I am aware. One such supplier is Palantir Technologies Inc., which is a data analytics company that worked with the U.S. government to plan mass arrests for nearly 700 people and the separation of children from their parents, causing irreparable harm. You can see the report of Amnesty U.S.A. on that from 2020, yet as I mentioned in my opening statement, Palantir has committed to Canada's algorithmic impact assessment and it's on that pre-qualified supplier list, seen as an ethical measure that supports responsible AI. To be committed to an AIA that's supposed to be ethical and then commit with another government these human rights abuses is very paradoxical and contradictory.
I ask our government, especially the Treasury Board, which manages that list, to reconsider as I mentioned, to get them off the list—and not just them, but others that I haven't looked into deeply about potential human rights abuses.