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Committee gets nearly 1,000 budget submissions ahead of federal budget
The federal finance committee received a record 948 budget submissions, including over $1 billion requested for AI in healthcare, ahead of the November 4 budget.
- The federal finance committee reported it received 948 briefs in recent years as it prepares for the federal budget, with many focusing on AI and digital policy issues.
- Many submissions focused on artificial intelligence and digital policy, with a Canadian tech sector group urging Ottawa to speed up building sovereign compute and cloud infrastructure.
- Health-Care groups asked for major AI funding, with an organization representing hospitals requesting more than $1 billion and HealthCareCAN proposing $500 million , $100 million plus $500 million .
- Industry submissions asked the government to include digital infrastructure in energy corridors and urged AI Minister Evan Solomon to advance a biometrics policy across federal departments.
- Rumble framed its submission around free speech, opposing online harms legislation, while a group called for sovereign digital infrastructure and data centres complying with Canadian security standards.
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Committee Gets Nearly 1,000 Budget Submissions Ahead of Federal Budget
The federal finance committee has received 948 briefs as part of its consultation ahead of the federal budget. It’s the highest number of submissions the committee has received in recent years, with many of them touching on artificial intelligence and digital policy issues. That includes a request from an organization representing hospitals for more than $1 billion in AI and health-care related funding, and an ask from telecom giant Rogers to in…
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The Federal Finance Committee received 948 submissions as part of its federal budget consultation, several of which deal with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital policy issues.
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Committee gets nearly 1,000 budget submissions ahead of federal budget
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