I appreciate the question.
Let's just say there is nobody in this room whose heart doesn't go out to the families in Tumbler Ridge. I know this is not a partisan issue. Every one of us here recognizes that we have to protect Canadians and protect kids. Tumbler Ridge is a horrific tragedy that is ongoing for the families and the community, and we took action.
Immediately after we found out the shooter's behaviour had been flagged eight months before by the technical side of OpenAI—in other words, the AI itself brought it up—and it was not escalated, I not only summoned the entire senior team to Ottawa but I spoke to the CEO, Sam Altman. I demanded they work with the Canadian AI safety institute to review all other past incidents to make sure they had escalated them with police and that they have a presence here in Canada with Canadian local law enforcement as opposed to just talking to U.S. enforcement, and that they have mental health experts. All options were on the table.
The Canadian AI safety institute is still working very closely on assessing. In the meantime, we have taken action. We have tabled legislation called the safe social media act. Not only will it restrict access for young people under 16 to social media, but it will include AI chatbots that have a duty to keep children safe, a duty to be responsible and a duty by law to be transparent about that. We are one of the first countries in the world to have any regulation at all on these new technologies called chatbots. We have taken action immediately on that.
That dovetails with what we've just tabled, which is the protecting privacy and consumer data act. That gives all companies, including AI companies, an obligation by law to protect children's information, and it gives citizens the right to see where abuses of information might take place. We have taken protective steps, but we've also doubled the budget of the Canadian AI safety institute. We know that it has to be more robust to make these kinds of assessments.