I think the urgency comes from the fact that for a long time there has basically been an unregulated sphere. Perhaps everyone was a little bit asleep at how quickly things evolved. I think now we are late. I mean, everyone is late.
I can't speak to the specificity of the development of the technology. I am not a scientist of artificial intelligence. But I do know a thing or two about law and about business law, and I can tell you that if you want businesses to modulate their behaviour as a function of the public interest, you need legislation. The profit motive or the structure of our corporate law is extremely permissive. They will not make the choices you want to make. We have to make those choices, or rather, you, as the representatives of Canadians, have to make those choices. What is most important? You put that down.
That doesn't mean we don't fine-tune. That doesn't mean we don't adapt. But we have to start laying some rules down, because right now what's driving the choices is self-interest, and mostly that's economic.