Madam Speaker, the first thing we would do, and it is in recommendation 18, is “impose a federal moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology by [all] policing services” to ensure that they are not engaging in racial discrimination. As can be seen in recommendation 6, we want to make sure the algorithm tools also address facial identification technology. We know that is also true in recommendation 9, that there has to be “transparent disclosure of racial, age or other unconscious biases that may exist in facial recognition technology”.
We have to fix it. That is why we need the moratorium right now, and Conservatives would make sure we get it right.