Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

[The Bread Guy]

Putting this here instead of the IRN thread because this'll likely bubble up more here than in theatre.

Team Blue says it's time to reach out to (at least potential) Shah 2.0.

Conservative leader invites Iran’s exiled crown prince to Canada

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has invited the former crown prince of Iran, who is pitching himself as the best option to lead Iran back to democracy, to visit Canada.

www.ctvnews.ca

This from Team Blue's coach's socials earlier today:

 

[HavokFour]

We may benefit from the spat Anthropic has been having with the management down south.

Anthropic job posting suggests it’s eyeing Alberta for data centre buildout | BetaKit

AI giant hiring community engagement manager and national compute lead to bring “gigawatts of compute” to Canada.

betakit.com

 

[PrairieFella]

We may benefit from the spat Anthropic has been having with the management down south.

Anthropic job posting suggests it’s eyeing Alberta for data centre buildout | BetaKit

AI giant hiring community engagement manager and national compute lead to bring “gigawatts of compute” to Canada.

betakit.com

What benefit? Data centres have exactly zero domestic benefit and they aint relocating all of Anthropic here.

 

[Czech_pivo]

We may benefit from the spat Anthropic has been having with the management down south.

Anthropic job posting suggests it’s eyeing Alberta for data centre buildout | BetaKit

AI giant hiring community engagement manager and national compute lead to bring “gigawatts of compute” to Canada.

betakit.com

Have you read the WSJ piece on the wife/girlfriend of the CEO of Anthropic? Spend the time and do so. It's eye-opening to say the least......I'll leave it at that.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Have you read the WSJ piece on the wife/girlfriend of the CEO of Anthropic? Spend the time and do so. It's eye-opening to say the least......I'll leave it at that.

https://archive.ph/MJI7q

Enjoy

 

[brihard]

What benefit? Data centres have exactly zero domestic benefit and they aint relocating all of Anthropic here.

Disagreed.

Canada will not have AI that is both sovereign (to the extent any country can) AND frontier. There are two frontier companies in the west; OpenAI and Anthropic. Both are solidly U.S. based. Their IP is all down there, their engineering, their labs… their physical infrastructure is largely NVIDIA, also US based though with most of their chip fabrication outsourced to Taiwan. Regardless, any non-China frontier AI contender depends on both their own tech and on chips that are controlled technology by the U.S.

Canada does have one strong but niche AI company in Cohere, but realistically there’s no catching up to the two frontier companies.

So, if Canada wants access to frontier models - and we very much do - our best leverage comes from becoming part of the supply/infrastructure chain. Hosting a chunk of Anthropic’s compute is a wise course of action for us to be able to parlay it into AI model access. It’s also useful from a geopolitical standpoint for Canada to be able to position ourselves as a physically and geographically safe infrastructure host, with reliable energy and a distinct lack of incoming ballistic missiles and drones.

Everyone who’s not the U.S. or China is behind on AI. We won’t catch up with making our own to try to accomplish the same thing, so let’s be a partner where we can to those who already do.

 

[Altair]

Disagreed.

Canada will not have AI that is both sovereign (to the extent any country can) AND frontier. There are two frontier companies in the west; OpenAI and Anthropic. Both are solidly U.S. based. Their IP is all down there, their engineering, their labs… their physical infrastructure is largely NVIDIA, also US based though with most of their chip fabrication outsourced to Taiwan. Regardless, any non-China frontier AI contender depends on both their own tech and on chips that are controlled technology by the U.S.

Canada does have one strong but niche AI company in Cohere, but realistically there’s no catching up to the two frontier companies.

So, if Canada wants access to frontier models - and we very much do - our best leverage comes from becoming part of the supply/infrastructure chain. Hosting a chunk of Anthropic’s compute is a wise course of action for us to be able to parlay it into AI model access. It’s also useful from a geopolitical standpoint for Canada to be able to position ourselves as a physically and geographically safe infrastructure host, with reliable energy and a distinct lack of incoming ballistic missiles and drones.

Everyone who’s not the U.S. or China is behind on AI. We won’t catch up with making our own to try to accomplish the same thing, so let’s be a partner where we can to those who already do.

Assuming of course the AI companies secure their next round of financing and don't leave everyone else in the economy in the lurch....

 

[dapaterson]

Corporate ownership of data centres is more important than location. Microsoft is a US corporation, subject to US law, so even a Canadian location for a data centre will still give all our data to the US government if requested.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Corporate ownership of data centres is more important than location. Microsoft is a US corporation, subject to US law, so even a Canadian location for a data centre will still give all our data to the US government if requested.

100% true.
Data needs to reside in Canada under a CDN owned entity.