Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am grateful to all the witnesses for being here.
I have a very broad question for Mr. Richer, and I would ask Mr. Madan and Ms. Pineau to chime in as well.
Every one of your presentations had a lot to say about the importance of Canadian control at every level from data to infrastructure and so on.
My questions are very basic. Why is that important? For example, what are the actual risks if those things are controlled by U.S. companies?
You also talked about the importance of economies of scale in the AI space, if I understand correctly. Is the Canadian market big enough to really benefit from economies of scale?
If so, is there space for competition, or is a natural monopoly taking shape?