Dominique O'Rourke
- Education
- BA Economics, University of Ottawa; MA Leadership, University of Guelph
- Political Experience
- Guelph city councillor, 2018-2025; MP for Guelph, elected 2025
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Mr. Speaker, May is Sexual Violence Prevention Month in Ontario. Every day, news stories show how widespread and devastating intimate partner and sexual violence is across Canada. These are not isolated incidents. They are not private matters. They are part of a systemic crisis with real human and social costs. In Canada, a recent report shows that sexual violence costs nearly $15 billion every
Thank you. I participated in an Inter-Parliamentary Union webinar on AI. They said, much to Mr. Jahangir's point, that data is the most important asset. I'm hearing that data is the new oil. We also heard from witnesses that it may not be possible to have that comprehensive auditability Mr. Jahangir referred to. Ms. Piovesan, you said that we need an AI assurance market. We're hearing that AI
I think you both spoke to the fact that a number of organizations are seeing the benefit of electric fleets in terms of cost savings. Can you comment quickly on what you're seeing in trends not only domestically but also globally in terms of fleet electrification and why Canadian businesses really shouldn't ignore that trend?
In the United States, we're seeing Tesla build supercharging stations. They're also coming out with semis that are electric. What is the benefit of having domestic battery production in Canada for the future we see coming all around us?
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The first question is for Ms. Weitzman, and perhaps also for Mr. Kabbara, if you can keep your answers short. Can you give us a general summary of the response to the government's auto strategy thus far?
Thank you, Chair. Thank you to the witnesses. I'd like to go to Ms. Piovesan first. My concern is that we're waiting for this AI framework and thinking one framework or one law will do it all, but we're hearing about ChatGPT. Then we're going to get to agentic AI. Then we're going to get to superintelligence. Some witnesses said that we should have an AI conversation in every single standing
Ms. Weitzman.
I believe that in the conversation right now about looking at the remittance framework, we might actually be widening the definition of what is Canadian production, so that's exciting. It's an opportunity to plug the productivity superdeduction, so people who have an EV fleet can write that off in the first year. That's in budget 2025. I want to give each of you a chance to comment on the
No problem. Thank you. I appreciate the bipartisan approach to this. As you know, Guelph has a large manufacturing sector. In fact, it accounts for 16,500 jobs in the city. I spoke with the president of the chamber of commerce this morning. I completely agree that three meetings is better than two and that we want to have a good response, but I also think there's a lot of value in having the
Mr. Kabbara, did you want to add anything?
Mr. Jahangir, do you have something to say about the comprehensive auditability? Does it exist now? We don't want to be researching and getting everything so perfect that we miss the boat on the commercialization and adoption.
Mr. Kabbara, could you give your perspective?