Evan Solomon

Protecting Canadians and safeguarding government systems remains a top priority.

This is the purview of sovereign governments, and that’s why we’re acting as we are.

We are absolutely advocating alongside our partners to work together to set up … regulation on AI safety and reliability.

Those are going to be enforced by the municipalities or the provinces.

We’ll invest $13 million to launch this course, to expand AI literacy for every single Canadian.

We’re establishing a new regulator that will have the power to hold these big companies to account.

Canada helped create modern AI. Now we are making sure Canadians have the knowledge and confidence to shape what comes next.

Together, these learning opportunities will give Canadians the confidence to use AI where it serves them, the judgment to question it where it does not and the knowledge to make informed choices about its place in their lives.

We will, as the first step in our AI strategy, invest in students, invest in teachers and invest in all Canadians' education and literacy.

The best way to ensure success at a time of change and innovation is through education.

We want to attract the investment, but be transparent about it.

There’s a big rush to build because of this new technology, and you gotta build right.

All the questions Canadians are asking about how are we going to build the digital infrastructure of the future are excellent questions … we get them.

If we don't build the infrastructure of the future here, we will have to buy it from somewhere else. And if we don't innovate here, we will rent that from someone else.

AI can do extraordinary things, but as it becomes part of our everyday life, transparency matters more than ever. Are you interacting with AI or with a real person? Was something created by AI or not?

We need to build this country together. It's not going to be easy. But I'll tell you what it's going to be the singularly most rewarding thing of our lives.

The government is setting an ambitious goal to double Canada's exports outside of the U.S. within the next decade.

Being an entrepreneur is non-stop. If you're not solving problems during the day, you're up at night worrying about finances. It's competitive out there, the world is changing.

Our responsibility is to Canadians, and to make sure that we protect kids, and protect privacy, and protect personal information. That’s what we’re going to do.

The new Act will not prohibit surveillance pricing outright, as does the Manitoba legislation.

We’re not going outlaw people who say, ‘Hey, I do get a discount because I’m a loyal shopper.’

The new privacy bill is pretty explicit that if in collecting information, the harms outweigh the benefits, then it will contravene the act.

It’s very easy to say just ban using personal information to give personal pricing, because we have to be super careful that we don’t want to penalize people who are members of a rewards program.

The moment is here. I think Canadians expect that their information should be protected.