It's a very interesting question looking at Canadian code talkers. I think a lot of us are drawn to the windspeaker American examples—the Navajo, for example—but we did have Canadians, Cree and Anishinabe, who contributed during both world wars in a similar function.
I'm not going to comment on operations overseas and whether or not we have the ability to force-generate and force-employ that kind of capacity in enough numbers to have the function and utility you're talking about on the battlefield. When it comes to domestic operating environments, however, that we think about being contested here in Canada in remote regions, the ability to have northern indigenous people speak in their languages is, once again, another competitive advantage. I'm more familiar with Inuktitut speakers, and often when they're translating things, they're inventing terms and descriptions on the fly. It would be almost impossible, even in this day and age, for AI to know what they were talking about unless the AI was a member of that community.
Domestically, it certainly has a utility, and in fact I would suggest it happens all the time. When the rangers are out on operations, they're often speaking with one another in the language of their community. From that standpoint, we should consider thinking about how Canada as a whole can leverage that depth of expertise and the vibrancy of the indigenous languages that we have in our country as a way to think about how we're competing effectively in the 21st century.
