It's in Canada's interest to get right what is a critically important issue—appropriate regulation of artificial intelligence. The idea that we want to race ahead with no consultation is just the wrong way to do something that all Canadians have an active interest in. We saw the government do the same on the generative AI guardrails, which were conducted privately, in secret, over the summer, and then rushed out with practically no public discussion.
When we look at some of the developments taking place around the world, we see that it becomes essential in terms of the kinds of protections Canadians might get with AI systems as well as some of the economic interests driven by the adoption of AI. We want to ensure that we contribute to that global conversation, and that some of our rules are broadly consistent with where things are headed, provided that they meet the kinds of standards that we're looking for.
In this instance, it's hard to figure out what the government is doing, other than that it raced out a sort of skeleton piece of legislation, got criticized for the lack of consultation and the lack of detail, and now says, “Okay, we'll provide more detail that makes it look a little bit more like Europe”, but we don't even have the language on that yet either.