Thank you.
We've seen that the justice department has quietly launched an artificial intelligence experiment as the government prepares to use software to decide cases in immigration, for example, and tax law. When you raised this stark difference between probabilities and reasonable doubt, it led me to consider that perhaps this is where the government is eventually going: to use artificial intelligence in deciding cases, as it is planning to do with immigration and tax law. There, they're feeding data into the software systems and predicting outcomes based on what the outcomes of previous cases were. Indeed, perhaps the gigantic scoops of data that we've learned about in recent days may be part and parcel of this experiment on artificial intelligence.
However, we have a policy vacuum. There is currently no legislation and there are no regulations, policy positions or frameworks within the Government of Canada to govern the use of AI in Canada. Also, there seems to be an anathema within the government to even have a study on AI—for example, in this committee—on what our policy is going to be as it applies to defence.
With your having been both a serving member in the military and a military judge, if this is the direction that our government is headed in to speed up the quick resolution of cases, do you think having a software program decide innocence or guilt based on probabilities would serve the defendant?