Thank you very much for that question.
Indeed, we are paying very close attention to everything that is going on now during the review of the Canada—United States—Mexico agreement, or CUSMA. We need to protect our cultural exception because without it, we will lose some of our freedom to implement cultural policies of our own choosing domestically.
However, besides the exception, we need to safeguard the laws we have in Canada. For instance, the Broadcasting Act, which was modernized in 2023, must be non-negotiable. The same goes with the act respecting the discoverability of French-language cultural content in the digital environment, which was enacted in Quebec.
We need to be very vigilant when it comes to artificial intelligence and anything that will involve digital trade, which can be used to circumvent our exception because it may not directly touch on what is already covered within the scope of the exception and its definition. These issues should be looked at closely.
As it is, we have seen some companies in the United States publicly say that the CUSMA review provides an opportunity to secure exceptions for text and data mining, for example. We need to be very vigilant on that front to ensure that this does not happen.