I mean, why can't we fathom governing companies like OpenAI? Is it because they appear to be dominant? Is it because we're afraid of them bullying us? We see situations right now where Canadian publishers and authors are being bullied by Google, which has decided, so that they can innovate, to tie the practice of their indexing so that you can show up in search. They're saying that if you want to show up in search, you have to let them take all the data on your site for their model. It's not something that we should say is inevitable and that we have to take. I would argue, and I have argued, that this is an abuse of their dominance. If we could signal in Canada that we won't let this practice happen, what innovation can we attract?
You know, earlier—although I'm saying to you that it's not inevitable—I was a bit of a Debbie Downer. I pointed to that digital chapter in CUSMA and said that there's a lot of stuff there that constrains us. That actually is an opportunity for Canada. There is no better time when we think about our sovereignty: Is the real “enemy” or bogeyperson here President Trump, or are we really talking about being subjugated by the Magnificent Seven companies? That is the opportunity for Canada to decide what markets we want to build and have here. That is what we're going to do through regulation. We need to do that without fear of that retaliation and retribution.