—individuals such as the Canadian Nuclear Association, OPG or others to bring forward their concerns was a big miss by the government.
I'm just taking this from your notes. You talked about how responsible AI needs a governance system, and you talked about a “governance gap” that requires action on three fronts: “citizen safety”, “information integrity” and “democratic legitimacy”. In your submission, you talk about how “trust must instead be built in the democratic infrastructure that governs AI.”
Again, when you look at the concerns that were shared with regard to the task force being industry-heavy.... For example, there was a gentleman, Patrick Pichette, from Inovia Capital, who made a submission. He said Ottawa should declare Cohere, in which Inovia is a major investor, Canada's “national LLM champion, and fuel it with large-revenue contracts”, and that the Toronto-based AI firm should receive deals worth over $1 billion each for applications in the public service and defence.
Right there, do you not believe that, as a task force report and recommendation, it's a conflict of interest? Are we not seeking input to develop a strategy as opposed to trying to recommend that one's own company receive contracts from the federal government?