Minister defends Canada’s new AI strategy

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Jayme Poisson· Host0:32

[upbeat music] Hey, everybody, I'm Jamie Poissant. Today, a feature conversation with the cabinet minister who I think holds one of the most important jobs in the country right now, Evan Solomon, Canada's first Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation. I have a lot of questions for him about his newly released AI strategy, so let's get straight into it. Minister Solomon, thank you so much for coming onto Front Burner.

Evan Solomon· Guest1:11

Great to be here, Jamie.

Jayme Poisson· Host1:12

So to start, in, in preparation for this interview, I went back and I read some interviews with you from, from last summer when you were newly appointed to this job, and you sounded really quite optimistic about this technology. You talk about using it to summarize complex legislation to brief you