Innovation, Science And Economic Development Canada

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Um, often they'll say, "Please, enact these self-regulatory norms and be good." And you se- saw what happened with Google when they, uh, started with, "Don't be evil." Um, nah, they're, they sort of backed off on that.

And lastly, one of the big challenges with, uh, nuclear power regulation is the national entities that regulate nuclear power are usually the ones who are promoting nuclear power, and there's been a long debate about whether agencies like ISED in, uh, Canada, for example, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, which is supposed to promote economic development and, um, occasionally regulate that economic development, whether they'd be so inclined to, say, put the brakes on an- anything that is also a part of digital sovereignty, for example.

I don't think so.

Now, I'm just trying to parse out whether it's the technology itself, whether it's the race that's going on between the companies.

'Cause right now it's very, gonna be very difficult for anybody to go and sell anything in, in the US especially for any new stuff.

And unfortunately, it does affect us here in Canada as well because a lot of times, uh, Industry Canada are r- you know, are the company that's, or the organization that's similar to the FCC, our version, very often they just take what the FCC has done and their studies and just rubber stamped it and said, "Okay, if it's the FCC's studies are good, then we're gonna allow it here in Canada as well." But if they're not doing it-

Hmm

... then it, it can affect all of, it can affect other countries then as well, like for us in, in Canada.

Um, and then your other question, you're like, "Where are they?" Well, again, we have few of those hyperscale facilities in Canada compared to south of the border, but there's a huge rush right now to build more.

So according to insider information that a colleague of, um, mine and I got through a legal process, uh, Industry Canada put together this slide deck.

It seems like there are hundreds, like upwards of 300, being built, data centers being built across Canada.

Not all of them are these hyperscale for, like, the gen AI, for the ChatGPTs, um, but there are many.

At least that's my interpretation from this article.

National Defense, Public Services and Procurement Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, It is bad enough that so much of taxpayer dollars are spent on overlapping bureaucratic responsibilities, but even worse is not being able to get much done due to so many wanting a say in proceedings and thus justifying their existence.

A really good example of why investment in Canada has stagnated over the last 10 years.

And years before, I'm sure.

I'll add on that, Dave.

I think, you know, I was at ADC, the Abbotsford Air Show here two weeks ago, and an associate deputy minister from ISED was asked this exact same question.

And the answer she gave was exactly the answer Yvonne gave, except without referencing the F-35.

This is about getting in at the front door before supply chains get set.

Now, before we get to what sort of responses you've received or not received, you are asking for specific or for regulatory and policy levers to be pulled to forespell into fixing their services.

Can you give us an idea of what specific levers we're talking about? Like, is there something specific that you're asking the CRTC and ISED to do specifically?

There's nothing specific that we're asking for them to do.

What we're asking for is for them to look at what they have as levers and have a conversation with us about that.

And that is a very busy intersection in the territory.

So if we can get to a point where we've got some consistency in our call and the network, then, you know, we will be in a better place.

Now, what about the response from the CRTC and ISED? Have you had a response from them in regards to those letters? Yeah,

we've had some dialogue.