Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thanks for being here, deputy ministers.
I'll get straight to it. The Liberal government announced a $700-million sovereign AI compute fund last year, a fund that is explicitly advertised as a five-year effort to build up Canadian AI infrastructure. Earlier this year, the very first cheque they wrote was for $240 million, representing more than a third of the entirety of the fund. It went to Cohere. Can you confirm that?
