The Senate resolved into a Committee of the Whole in order to receive the Honourable Evan Solomon, P.C., M.P., Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, to consider the subject of artificial intelligence.

Senator Gerba: Minister, since the modernized Official Languages Act guarantees the substantive equality of French and English, what measures is the government implementing to ensure that the AI tools used within the federal government deliver equivalent quality in both languages, without disadvantaging francophones?

Mr. Solomon: This is a very important and critical issue for our country, for the minister and for AI technologies, since the government uses this technology. The Treasury Board has rules in place for this.

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They ensure we always comply with the Official Languages Act, that we make sure we have full access for all Canadians who speak French, and we make sure that those systems are available equally in English.

This will also be reflected, again, in our national strategy, but this is not only a core value to our government; we strictly adhere to the Official Languages Act. It is essential; this is not deviating —

The Chair: Thank you, minister.