Canada is not by itself in the world. It has to deal with other parties out there. Across the pond, you have Europe, which takes a very heavy approach to regulation. They're usually leading the pack, and they have been on AI as well. To the south, we have a country, the United States, the does not do a lot of regulation. As a country, Canada wants to do business in both jurisdictions, so we have to walk a line.
I have not been involved in any of the consultations relating to this. It is just sort of my perspective. We have to walk a line. This is what I see in Bill C-27, part 3, the AI and data act part. It is trying to create a framework that will be helpful for Canadian companies that want to go do business in Europe. It also does not want to discourage our interactions with the United States in terms of AI. We have to accept that the big players in all digital spaces are mostly American companies, and we don't want to cut ourselves off from that.