Thank you.
I'll go over to the Privacy and Access Council of Canada. As this committee meeting is going on today, in Europe there has been a large AI meeting. All the leaders were there—the U.K. leader, the Italian leader and so forth.
I want to ask your thoughts in terms of the artificial intelligence act. I think there was a document dated April 14, 2023, with regard to the EU becoming likely the de facto global standard for general-purpose generative AI intelligence systems. I may be very humble about this, but with the speed at which AI and other forms of new technologies are taking place, I don't know how many people actually understand them.
We were over in Europe several months ago as chairs of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association. We had some folks actually from Montreal there, who gave us presentations.
It's very complicated and so forth, but I would like to hear your thoughts in terms of the EU's proposed AI act and where that will take not only the EU but the world, because it seems there is some “first mover” going on, if I can use that term.