🇨🇦 Ottawa wants transparency from AI, not from Ottawa

The same federal machine that buried Canadians in censorship bills, outsourced policy to consultants, and spent years treating dissent like a software bug now wants public input on AI transparency. Very cute. Ottawa is launching consultations on what explainability should look like in artificial intelligence, as reported, as if this government has ever shown any appetite for explaining its own black-box decision-making.

This is the Trudeau-era formula in miniature: regulate first, define later, and wrap it all in the language of safety, inclusion, and trust. Translation: build the framework now so the state, its friendly NGOs, and the usual globalist policy class can decide which automated systems are acceptable, which speech is risky, and which citizens get flagged by the new managerial priesthood. Canadians do not need another choreographed consultation to legitimize technocratic control. We need hard limits on state surveillance, foreign-influenced governance, and algorithmic systems used to discipline a population already overtaxed, overmanaged, and lied to.

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