Thank you, Chair, and thanks to the entire committee for allowing me to be here today.
Thank you, Minister.
Minister, I want to focus a bit on the regional development of AI. Of course, I'm from Alberta, one of the strongholds of artificial intelligence development in this country.
During a recent visit to AMII, you highlighted Canada's AI leadership, and you announced new funding for AI literacy and compute access. The budget also commits $1 billion to AI compute and infrastructure investments, including $20 million for AMII, in my home province of Alberta, to expand compute capacity for researchers. This is great. This infrastructure will help businesses seize opportunities from AI. It will create jobs, and it will create economic growth, but we need more of it.
How do regional hubs like AMII fit into the government's strategy to ensure access to sovereign compute resources? What role are regional hubs going to play in scaling AI adoption nationally?