Industry committee  Sure. I'll be quick. In terms of consent fatigue, there are new exceptions and existing exceptions where people don't even need to be provided knowledge of the things that are happening. For workers, say, no knowledge or gathering of consent is required. A different committee i

Industry committee  Sure. I think the bill needs lots of amendments and improvements. I think some have been tabled by the minister already, and several are noteworthy improvements from the current version. Maybe I'll just focus some comments on things I haven't yet raised. I think the current mo

Industry committee  May I just add quickly to that? Let's not also make the same mistake we did with the Privacy Commissioner. If it's going to be set up as an independent agent, then it has information-sharing powers with the government and with other commissioners. A lot of these investigations

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely. I think just information-sharing powers to enable that investigation...but yes, of course, when it comes to enforcement or a fine or a decision, it should be clear who is doing what

Industry committee  It will be a challenging task. I think part of the challenge is that AI—and it's the reason that the bill exists in the first place—is going to start to affect every part of the economy, and it's going to be used in a bunch of different sectors in a bunch of a different ways. The

Industry committee  That is a great question. I think Quebec has done a nice job of creating a robust AI ecosystem, and that shows up in the numbers and how more Quebec businesses have adopted AI systems. The number is still not that much higher than in the rest of the country. It's still in the sin

Industry committee  I think I got that. Do you mind repeating the question? I'm sorry.

Industry committee  Thank you. I think the ability for the law to meaningfully prevent and ban outright bias in these systems, psychological harm and misuse and malicious use depends on the context of the system we're talking about, but in financial services, in health care, in content moderation,

Industry committee  It's a really core challenge, especially when it comes to misinformation, as opposed to some other content that's more clearly illegal, say things like hate speech. With respect to misinformation, yes, we have to be very careful, but I tend to focus on a “more speech” approach r

Industry committee  That's a good question. Most large online platforms use automated systems to do content moderation. Those can produce imperfect results. Right now, you're seeing legitimate pro-Palestinian expression being caught up in filters about Hamas, just as an example. These systems are i

Industry committee  The AI or just in general...?

Industry committee  Sure. I would be delighted. We think a lot about misinformation and online harm. The government has been considering legislation on online safety for a while and been consulting about it. We're urging that it move forward. We were surprised, but I think pleasantly surprised, th

Industry committee  Maybe a three.... I may be more charitable, but I think it was well intended. I don't ascribe malicious motives to it, but it has a lot that needs to be improved.

Industry committee  Yes. If it has a significant impact, you have the ability to request information, but there is no ability to appeal, challenge or have a human review it, as you say other jurisdictions have done.

Industry committee  Yes.