{"id":725214,"date":"2026-06-09T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725214\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:30:10","slug":"ndp-mp-calls-federal-ai-strategy-superficial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725214\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP MP Calls Federal AI Strategy \u2018Superficial\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ndp-mp-don-davies-federal-cpac.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"NDP MP Calls Federal AI Strategy 'Superficial'\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Davies (CPAC)<\/p>\n<p>The federal NDP calls the federal government\u2019s new AI strategy \u201creckless and inadequate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the new strategy last week. <\/p>\n<p>MP Don Davies says Canadians were expecting guardrails on the new technology, but instead got a \u201csuperficial\u201d strategy that he says mouths \u201cthe lines of tech billionaires.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He says AI technology can provide benefits to all Canadians, but left unchecked, it can cause problems as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that AI is driving mass surveillance; it\u2019s facilitating fraud, it\u2019s threatening jobs. It consumes huge amounts of water and energy, and it targets the most vulnerable in our society, including children and seniors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s calling on the federal government to scrap the current policy and develop what he calls a humans-first AI strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne that protects Canadian communities, Canadian jobs, Canadian small business and Canadian natural resources.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Don Davies (CPAC) The federal NDP calls the federal government\u2019s new AI strategy \u201creckless and inadequate.\u201d Prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-725214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}