Federal budget 2024: Canada promises $7B to boost productivity in AI, research investments

Canada’s 2024 federal budget promises about $7 billion to boost productivity, with the bulk going to artificial intelligence and research investments.
But experts question whether the moves in this budget will actually work.
Abigail Bimman has more.
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[@TheHandOfGovernment]

7B to research how to get rid of your job

[@manofsan]

as if others won't research & invent this if we don't can't stop technical advancements "stop the world, I want to get off" just isn't realistic

[@TheHandOfGovernment]

@@manofsan there’s no lack of AI investment right now

[@manofsan]

@@TheHandOfGovernment - modern AI was invented at UofT - but Canada is not at the forefront of cashing in. Everybody else is rushing past Canada to help themselves to the fruits of what was invented in Canada. I'd say that means there's something lacking here.

[@user-je6cy3pu3u]

They are going to use it to spy on Canadians building the social credit system! Enough it’s time for a fair election I don’t think we will get it! Ai to fix the next election too with the electric ballot machines

[@Ont785]

@@manofsan It’s not gonna happen in Canada, despite the taxpayers money.

[@ZenCorvus]

Money to remove jobs and doing the corporations job for them. This governments inept.

[@MrBobbyBrown2006]

That means every tax age paying Canadian is paying over $230 a year in taxes to support Ai research. I bet you 95%+ of Canadians would decline paying that if they had the option.

[@user-je6cy3pu3u]

Definitely cut government by 3/4 quit spending taxpayer money for all this no value for money! And scandals are going out of control with no consequences

[@voidcheque7019]

I would decline. I'm sick of all these "upgrades" constantly. World is changing too much.

[@dirkthewrench]

​@voidcheque7019 nothing wrong with the world changing Problem is the way it's changing is solely for the betterment of the 1%

[@MrWallace484]

Yet only $200 for disabled Canadians, what a joke !

[@laurenm2679]

Seriously right? So much for this bill/law lifting people out of poverty. Not to mention the fact it's tied to the DTC and won't start being paid out until next June. They need to get their priorities straight.

[@MrWallace484]

@@laurenm2679 I think it’ll be changed because of the outrage

[@AC-zt2ky]

8 years of negligence and incompetence. This is what happens. Can we move on to the next government now please? PLEASE!?

[@MrJimmysez]

They'll be even worse...

[@AC-zt2ky]

@@MrJimmysezso we should keep the devil we know? Is that what your saying?

[@MrJimmysez]

@@AC-zt2ky I like it when we have a minority government...and they have to cooperate and compromise, not just pronounce and dictate. Pierre does have the stench of Harper and might sell out the country like a Mulroney.

[@allennaven4445]

More Waist of taxpayers money they need to go

[@e1206]

That's money is gone 😂😂😂.. What fools we are as these idiots keep spending

[@winstonsmith935]

That picture is correct, I can just about afford a door, not the whole car.

[@_Ambition124]

Why is that we the tax payers cant vote on anything and where our money is going or what it is being invested in?

[@ericbrown333]

Because we live in a false democracy. It's all an illusion.

[@skbuydens7717]

Reduce taxes?

[@lastChang]

Restricing China from accessing artificial intelligence technologies makes a lot of sense, *economically and morally.*

[@jkb358]

Restricting the corrupt authoritarian Trudeau regime from accessing AI tech makes more sense, economically and morally

[@Ont785]

We haven’t restricted China from anything why would this be any different? We have a government that’s taxing the crap out of us, part of it is just for feel good environmental policies for carbon pricing. China has 3100 coal burning plants for electricity… if they were to reduce that by 5%, it would exceed all of Canada‘s emissions.. They do not have any carbon pricing at all, yet they’re allowed to put their products on our shelves..

[@Notaproudcanadian]

Just another way to steal money

[@Pepe46873]

He also wants higher taxes. Who would invest in Tech in Canada if you could do the same job elsewhere with similar wages and lower taxes

[@ZenCorvus]

Liberal logic doesn't understand this

[@user-je6cy3pu3u]

It’s all a scam how is the crime minister made 100 million since he came in to power

[@ArabicReja973]

For national security reasons, Canada 🇨🇦 should not approve visas for Chinese students enrolled in Postgraduate *Nuclear Fusion or Artificial Intelligence* programs.

[@debbiejones6779]

How much of these billions will be to liberal consultants?

[@ianhowes8141]

If you want to boost productivity, get rid of trade unions and allow employers to have staff who want to work rather than just have a job!

[@user-je6cy3pu3u]

And shrink the government 25% gdp shouldn’t be that much

[@thomasnason4516]

​@@user-je6cy3pu3u50% of the government can be cut and those left get their salaries either cut or frozen for the next decade to make up for the usless liberal spending habits over the past decade

[@tehabnorm]

Some people think that this givernment is incompetent when in fact they are malice .

[@ewenmacdonald3262]

This is basically penalizing every industry except for tech companies who will mop up all the money… this is a step too far

[@mariabarbarino8543]

It be nice if the $7billion pulled all these broken record high. Poverty out of poverty. It should be Canadians first. But nope its Canadians shat on just like WEF liberal NDP coalition commys have been doing for yearssss.

[@johnosborne3452]

Yep more peeps out of work and greater profits for the builder's payed for by the taxpayers.

[@ScalesOfaRam]

This isn't a budget. It's a wishlist.

[@genesisomega2503]

"Productivity in AI" is really, they want to increase the robot state against the majority

[@Myopinion789]

Say goodbye to EVERYTHING

[@Jason-mo6rg]

More job cuts CONGRADULATIONS. They cant help the poor and struggling but they will help make more poor people.

[@thecreator7471]

Not even 2 years and this world is at war

[@HamidA-to8vy]

It's a "earn more for less" culture in most. On the other hand, there is lack of engineering, especially in the field of industrial engineering, which has become extinct in Canada.

[@Myopinion789]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Who’s going to have money? They have bankrupted several GENERATIONS!!!!!

[@hartbleed7151]

This melting pot society is rotten and it reaks

[@piku5637]

Normalize worker co-ops and labour unions. Workers make the world run, workers should run the world.🍞Ⓐ🌺

[@thomasnason4516]

Unions have destroyed the workforce by removing this little thing called work ethic. Everyone wants 150 k a year for doing less work then a McDonald's worker has to do

[@mike5587]

"How are we going to fix the economic damage we've caused with our idiotic policies for the past 9 years?" "I hear everyone keep talking about AI these days..." "Genius! Lets give ourselves raises!"

[@dirkthewrench]

7b dollars for useless algorithm tech

[@smashypeople]

AI is awful

[@Moonshine449]

Especially for musicians. I’ve been playing all my life and wanted to be a musician, but now the future is very uncertain

[@canadaclub8920]

The new AI technologies are already making a huge impact, like to see canada be a world leader

[@tehabnorm]

Be careful for what you wish for .

[@Myopinion789]

Liberal/NDP playbook: Starve everyone, destroy their jobs, just to save their own little pensions.

[@CosmopolitanCaliph]

Thank God!

[@frankcastle2045]

Yep pushing people out of jobs why not 🤪

[@piku5637]

UBI and or UBH would go a long way to help DV and SA survívors🌸🍞Ⓐ

[@ZenCorvus]

Ya it would destroy them further

[@tehabnorm]

Yeah communism is just wonderful

[@slytester5636]

You want to rid yourself from a huge waist of our money? If every province at the same time declared its sovereignty from Ottawa until such time as the Ottawa parliament and senate is dissolved and in its place a hall of nations is constituted of willing constituent nations of the Canadian Confederation. Every sovereign state of the confederation sends a delegation of already elected officials perhaps the over numbered elected official that a representative based government will produce. This being done for every member state. ( hist. province ) Similar with the European government except the representatives are already elected in their own parliaments and only sit when a forum is called in the hall of nations. This way every constituent member state administers its own affairs coming together only for shared concerns. All purse strings remain in the member states. The states will be required to contribute an amount equal to a percentage of their respective GDP to cover the cost of these meetings. This is a free union that is a democratic association of willing member states mandated by each member’s citizen elected representatives.

[@tehabnorm]

That would be great if they weren't all on the same team pretending to be different , I think that became obvious over the last few years , but somehow most are blind.