Thanks Garth for giving the doc. a thorough read. I will work in your suggestions. Yes, it took me quite a while to put that together. With so many parts and similiar questions, it was easy to lose the thread.  For others who wish to comment, I will have to submit this next week. So there is not a lot of time.

Marita

On Mar 4, 2026, at 7:58 AM, Marita Moll <mmoll@ca.inter.net> wrote:

...and I invite you to add comments, corrections, suggestions for additions so I can incorporate them. 

Whew! And a complex task well done.  

I’ve scanned through the document, flagging ideas I thought could lead to actions, and then comparing them with the section on recommendations.  Here’s three possible additions to the recommendations section ….

 1.     Canada should take a leadership role in advocating for multistakeholder governance and collaboration at the international level in the development and use of this transformative technology.  So that what emerges remains consistent with agreed upon values, government, private sector, civil society and any collaborative technical communities that come into view should agree on collectively managing the risks and setting the rules and standards around AI.

 2.     In the section on recommendations, it now says:
Support national education programs: Invest in public AI literacy to strengthen informed participation in democratic oversight and public ability to use AI tools in a safe and effective manner.

I’d suggest revising it as follows:
Invest in public AI literacy and increased awareness.  To strengthen informed participation in democratic oversight and public ability to use AI tools in a safe and effective manner, support national education programs and new spaces for discussion of its long-term effects.

 3.     Seek out change agents and create forums for them to share their experience.  As AI evolves, there are people (early adopters) who will embrace AI’s nature on its own terms and use it imaginatively to beneficially evolve themselves and their relationships with those around them. Because they have reframed their perspectives more rapidly than others, they will tend to operate in spaces that are interstitial to existing socio-economic organizational structures. For example, in the early 1990s, community networks focused on social action emerged well before corporations saw that demand for Internet access was an economic opportunity But, this time out, any resulting action for change will need to anticipate resistance from existing socioeconomic organizational structures

Under the heading of what next? – Perhaps TC should have our own discussion of the particular actions we might take?
 GG