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.

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

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

Canada’s consumer privacy laws are 25 years old. They were written before the iPhone. It was a different time, before AI, before deep fakes.

Companies that operate in Canada must take responsibility for the risk their service is creating, especially when children are involved.

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

“When this bill passes, I’ll be asking the regulator for guidance, to publish guidance as one of my first acts on surveillance pricing, to clarify exactly what that will be.”

Our primary purpose here is to give control back to Canadians over their own personal information and to require by law — with enforcement — that companies treat the information very sensitively.

“We’re living in a different world, and our laws need to catch up.”

“Protection is not the opposite of innovation.”

“If the harms outweigh the benefits, as in the case with surveillance pricing, the regulator could take charge,” he said.

“Canada’s consumer privacy laws are 25 years old. They were written before the iPhone. It was a different time, before AI, before deepfakes,” AI Minister Evan Solomon said after tabling the bill in the House of Commons.

We believe that it’s very important to set up a robust commission that has those enforcement powers and that’s what we’re doing, in as quick a manner as possible.

We think Canada needs that kind of independent regulator.

The legislation proposes giving Canadians the ability to request that a company delete their personal information, including AI and other electronically generated 'deepfakes,' made in an individual’s likeness.

“Canadians will have a practical way to fight back against harmful deepfakes, they will have more power to require companies to delete personal information they should no longer hold,”

We are looking at things like how to combat deep fakes and giving the right to deletion.

In the forthcoming days, I will be releasing our updated privacy legislation which will update 25-year-old privacy legislation.

Responding to these concerns and building responsible Canadian AI will not be easy, but it must be done.