Thank you so much, Madam Chair. It's a real honour to be here today.
In the last Parliament, I was on the industry committee, and we extensively studied Bill C-27. I believe some of you may have appeared in the first attempt of the government to pass some form of AI legislation.
I know you can't speak to the specifics or the recommendations you might have made to the new Minister of AI, but you can speak to what other people said in the community and across Canada.
One of the big concerns that we had as Conservatives in the last Parliament was that the Government of Canada was prioritizing commercial interests over human rights. I'm wondering whether, in its consultations across Canada, the task force heard directly from people that the privacy, freedom from discrimination, democratic participation or even protection against exposure to biometrics in certain cases—like monitoring in the public sphere—should always be weighed more strongly than the commercial interests of companies that want to conduct those activities.