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 include digital technology in energy corridors for major projects.
A Canadian tech sector group is asking to speed up building sovereign compute and cloud infrastructure, while IBM Canada says the government should invest in quantum computing….