Thank you for your question.
Chair, my honourable colleague understands this industry extremely well. He's very well versed in it. I appreciate the question on talent. We have to build on our foundation of talent. That's the talent attraction strategy. There will be more elements to make sure that we capture the talent.
There are opportunities out there. Some fantastic programmers who can't get into some other countries right now are looking for a place to build that is safe and that protects their values, and where they can have the security. We're attracting; this is a place to build. We're absolutely doing that. We are investing in our talent. The $1.7 billion is part of it, to recruit 1,000 world-class researchers. That's really part of it.
I should say that we're also creating talent here. I mean, this is one thing we shouldn't sell ourselves short on. Maybe we as Canadians don't celebrate our own successes.
It goes beyond our three institutes, Mila, in Montreal, Vector Institute, in Toronto, and Amii, in Edmonton. Many universities are producing some highly skilled people.
The University of Waterloo is among the very best in the world. Simon Fraser is among the very best in the world, as are Sherbrooke, Université Laval, the Université de Montréal and McGill. We are producing more talent and engineers, but I should say that it's not just people who understand the technology. We need Canadians from all sectors to understand. Some like to talk about STEM, which is science, technology, engineering and math, but there's also STEAM, which is science, technology, engineering, arts and math, because there are remarkable.... We need to make sure that “AI for all” means that all these folks have the literacy to use these tools.
The last thing I'll say is that the good news is that these tools are getting a little easier to use. To use a kind of cool tech term, it's called “vibe coding”. It used to be that you needed a real technology degree to be able to really use these tools to produce some benefits. Now it's so easy to use the interfaces. They call it vibe coding. People who may not have a tech background can use it for their companies.
So it's becoming more inclusive. We have to make sure it's safe.