Again, I'm happy to talk about the bill we've put forward on the sharing of non-consensual sexualized imagery, especially those generated by deepfakes, the so-called synthetic imagery. We consider that a form of a criminal offence. We have legislation about that. This is a form of violence against vulnerable communities that we will be taking action on in some legislation. We've tabled some legislation and there will be a suite of legislation to deal with that part of our privacy, updating our privacy laws, which is part of my remit, but also I know part of Heritage under Mr. Miller.
These are genuine concerns Canadians have. In terms of our strategy, maybe it's good to just tell Canadians that we had a national task force of 28 different experts from across the country who submitted their reports from all different aspects, some on safety, some on workforce, some on skills and training, some on infrastructure, some on adoption. They're very thorough. They're very interesting.
We had a series of round tables. The public can see all those. It's very transparent.
We also had more than 11,000 public responses, which is the largest, I think, in the ministry's history. Those were long, thoughtful responses from Canadians. They're posted as well, so people can read them.
We've also had multiple round tables. This morning I had a fantastic round table. It is Black History Month, and I had a round table with black Canadians in the tech space who had real concerns about things like bias. We talked about transparency and automated decision systems to make sure that there's not built-in bias. Those are the kinds of things that we're looking at in our legislation.
In our AI national strategy, as I say, building the infrastructure is part of it. Empowering a workforce, skills and training, to make sure the workforce of the future is here, are critical. But for this particular committee, I know you're seized with the protect side, the ethics of it. This is a really important conversation. How do we have responsible, reliable AI to get the benefits and mitigate against the harms? Part of that protect strategy is our legislation, and part of that protect strategy is to build sovereign data centres and sovereign companies because we believe sovereignty is a form of safety.