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Invest in AI infrastructure and research, massively and quickly.
Economically transformative AI is 1 year away, 2 at most. Right now Canada is not even trying to compete. Think the US is dominating us economically right now? You've seen nothing yet.
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Mr. Carney, the single most important key to a strong economy in the next few years is going to be AI. It will boost productivity 10X or more, increase the speed of technological invention, and transform the world economy. It is urgent that Canada invest massively in AI research and infrastructure.
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Mr. Carney, please don't fall into the trap of thinking that this time is like the previous centuries of human history.
Economically transformative AI is 1 year away, 2 years at most. Canada urgently needs massive investment in AI infrastructure and research to catch up to the US.
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Gary Marcus is a hack—models like GPT-o3 and DeepSeek R1 demonstrate real reasoning.They can solve novel logic puzzles, invent proofs for math problems they've never seen, and strategically plan multi-step tasks in real-time. That’s not just regurgitating data—it’s adaptive, flexible thinking.
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Mr. Carney, I've seen you on TV argue that Canada needs to negotiate a new trade agreement with the US to get rid of this harmful uncertainty. That would be nice, but Trump has done nothing but break agreements. What makes you think he won't break the next one?
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I'm fully in favor of this, increasing housing supply is the only solution.
That said, their home is their main financial investment for a lot of Canadians, and housing falling in value would be awful for them. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.
Is there a way to have our cake and eat it too?
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Yes. But we'd also be ok with just surviving the next decade as a country, which is not going to happen if we don't invest massively (and quickly) into AI research and development. The US and China are one year away from AI agents capable of doing most white collar jobs for a fraction of the cost.
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If our government was on the ball, we would already have a 100 billion dollar+ GPU cluster being built, and a couple companies competing with OpenAI and DeepSeek.
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I'm sorry, your reply just shows that _you_ don't grasp what's coming. Modern AI has nothing to do with what existed even 3 years ago. We are perhaps a year away from AI agents that can do most white collar jobs better and vastly more quickly than human beings.
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Yes. Unfortunately the Paris AI Summit was largely a waste of everyone's time. I don't think our government is anywhere close to realizing the magnitude, or the urgency of the threat posed by Trump and Xi Jinping having AI dominance.
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Invest in AI. Quickly and massively.
This means attracting the best AI researchers, assembling huge AI chip clusters, and building nuclear power plants to provide the required energy. The US and China are about to completely dominate the economy thanks to AI. Cooperate with Europe.
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Mr. Carney, that's... optimistic. Trump has already said he's going to ignore the courts. The only thing that might stop him at this point is Republican congresspeople turning against him, and that's extremely unlikely. We're watching American democracy disintegrate in real-time.
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Mr. Carney, please take 3 minutes to read this statement on the Paris AI Summit from Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, one of the four leading AI research companies in the world:
www.anthropic.com/news/paris-a...
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Didn't that start today?
Anyway, yes that is encouraging, although I don't think he (and other politicians) grasp how quickly AI research is progressing, and how much it will change everything.
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Incidentally, the knee-jerk reaction to attribute any mild criticism of woke dogma to conservative hate and block/cancel the person is the major failure point of the woke movement, and it's a large part of the pushback it gets from non-woke leftists and centrists.
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It's part of what cost Kamala the election on the American side. Not the main reason (inflation and illegal immigration were the main drivers, according to post-election studies), but a negative reaction to woke ideology was definitely a part of it. Why hand PP free votes when it could be avoided?
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*rolls eyes*
The near totality of my replies to Mr. Carney have nothing to do with wokeism. I wrote the reply above because, despite what you may think if you spend all your time on the internet, "campaigning on woke ideology" is going to lose Mr. Carney votes from centrists and even leftists.
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Quite right. :)
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Mr. Carney, I'm extremely concerned that I've not read a word from you about the need to compete with the US and China in the field of AI. AI is the one thing that will determine this country's economic future, and we are leagues behind two countries lead by dictators.
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Mr. Carney, I am worried that Canada isn't doing everything we can to compete at least to some degree in the field of AI.
Please, please speak with @yoshuabengio.bsky.social
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Great, so there's no reason for Mr. Carney to use that word then, is there?
He can just say that you wrote, that he supports women's rights, LGBTQ communities, and so forth.
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Dr. Bengio, have you made efforts to talk to Mr. Carney, and the Canadian government in general? They seem completely clueless about what's coming.
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Mr. Carney, you need to be aware of an existential threat to Canada.
A country's dominance in AI is a few years, perhaps less than a year, from becoming the most important determinant of its economy and national security. Please speak with Dr. Yoshua Bengio of Montreal's AI Institute, MILA.
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I agree, I support that too, and I'd glad Mr. Carney supports it as well.
What I'm warning against is Mr. Carney explicitly endorsing woke ideology:
www.westernstandard.news/news/watch-c...
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Mr. Carney, I don't know if having a poutine is going to win you votes from Quebec, but what is going to lose you many votes is if you continue campaigning on woke ideology.
In 2025 wokeism is an extremist ideology that is repulsive to most Canadians. PP _will_ use this against you.
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Canada could tax the big American AI companies such as Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, etc, but how will Trump, or his successor react to that?
But even putting that aside, it seems insane to me that Canada is not even trying to compete with China and the USA for AI dominance.
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Mr. Carney, you've talked about the incoming job loss because of AI, and that the solution to that is UBI. I think you're right, but the money for UBI has to come from taxing the profits created by AI. We have no big AI company, or large AI GPU clusters in Canada.
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M. Carney,
je viens de lire que vous faites une campagne pro-woke. Ceci est une immense erreur d'un point de vue électoral.
Les derniers sondages vous donne une avance sur PP au Québec. Cette avance va disparaitre dès que le fait que vous êtes pro-woke va se faire connaitre.
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But our institutions should go back to being merit-based, biological women are different from trans women, etc.
Wokeism started with the best of intentions, but it has gone too far. Please don't lose this election over something this stupid.
Thank you.
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Please don't make the same mistake the American Democrats did. All you have to do is adopt a centrist, rational, reality-based position. Yes, there's still racism and sexism and transphobia, and we need to work on that. But...
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What you should do is what you did with the carbon tax. Remove the anti-woke argument from PP's arsenal.
You're correct that there's an anti-woke fever gripping America, but it's a response to the woke fever that's been gripping it for the last 5 years. Please don't...
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Now wokeism is an extreme ideology that stands against science in many ways. Its proponents are very loud, but they are a small minority of Canadians. The majority are horrified or at least deeply annoyed and wokeism, and being in favor of it _will_ cost you the election.
What you should do...
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2. That all else being equal, a black person has a better chance of getting hired than a Caucasian for the same job.
3. Unquestionable dogmas such as "all disparities are due to systemic oppression", and "lived experience trumps reality."
Wokeism was fighting the good fight 10 years ago. Now...
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Also, Mr. Carney, I've just read that you're "campaigning on woke ideology". This is electorally suicidal.
First, while most Canadian are pro-equality etc, this is not what "woke" means in 2025.
In 2025 woke means:
1. Trans women in biological women's sports
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M. Carney, je supporte votre candidature, mais je suis inquiet que le Canada ne semble presque rien faire pour tenter de faire compétion aux États-Unis et à la Chine dans le domaine de l'intelligence artificielle. Nous avons investi 15 milliards de $. Il faudrait en investir 500 milliards.
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M. Carney, vous parlez de diversifier l'économie du Canada et c'est en effet important, mais vous semblez négliger que l'intelligence artificielle va tout transformer, de l'économie à la sécurité nationale, et ce d'ici 1 à 3 ans. Le Canada est déjà en retard quant à la recherche en IA. SVP, agissez!
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Mr. Carney, the biggest shock of all is going to be the effect of AI in 2025. Large Language Models like ChatGPT are just the beginning. This year AI labs will release AI agents that will outcompete human workers in many jobs that can be done remotely. Canada must invest in AI massively and quickly.
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Mr. Carney, things have changed and are changing extremely quickly. The key to a strong economy in the next few years is going to be developing, and making use of increasingly intelligent and economically transformative AI. Canada must invest massively in AI compute and research, _now_!
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M. Carney, the highest priority is a massive investment in AI research, AI computing capacity, and the energy infrastructure to power it.
CEOs and researchers at all major AI labs are predicting AI more capable than the smartest humans within the next few years. Canada must act now.