Althea Raj

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678 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 16 Jun

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Reporter's Notebook - Raj and Russo on Canada/Us and Much More · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

And Canadians are not so that that business opportunity is gone.

But also Canadians as a whole are very skeptical of AI.

We have some of the lowest adoption rate.

This is what I told from the government of like other Western countries, like the South Koreans are like, yeah, you would use it every day.

And we're like, and if people are like me, I'm like, yeah.

I'm worried about losing my ability to think.

So I try to use it as little as I possibly can.

But the government wants to encourage people like me and perhaps people like you, Peter, I don't know, to use it more.

So it will spend taxpayers dollars to encourage businesses to adopt AI in their small and medium enterprises.

It will send

basically young people to businesses to help them use AI and implement AI in the way that they do their work.

So there'll be an interesting, like when I first started,

read these six pillars and they were actually outlined in the spring fiscal update.

I thought when they were talking about jobs, it was about like helping people retain some sort of employment insurance so that people who lose their jobs, honey, I think that's going to come later because right now they're really just focused on like, let's use this.

And there's job opportunities, not so much focused on the other aspects of the ledger.

Rob also, I think, spoke well to the cloud sovereignty, the government and the prime minister, I think maybe said this in the throne speech, but like a while back talked about our need to be sovereign in terms of our technology.

You know, the government uses Amazon and Microsoft and well, that's not Canadian.

And so encouraging Canadian cloud development, data sovereignty, all that sort of stuff.

I don't expect any of the kind of the conversation pieces that I think we have seen having in like cultural communities about like how to protect your copyright and or even in journalism, like, you know, AI is scraping all our content and giving it back to people and the, you know,

Papers like mine are not getting any money from this.

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