Canada says AI strategy will help create 250k jobs, boost GDP by 3%

> TORONTO, June 4 (Reuters) - Canada unveiled a new artificial intelligence strategy on Thursday that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031 and includes a new C$500 million ($360.05 million) tech fund to help homegrown AI firms.

what are these firms going to do? $500 million to middleman firms to flog models made in the US or China?

"we want to build data centers, too!"

See also

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-ai-strategy-9.722323...

Here's the goodie:

> Create up to 90,000 AI-related job opportunities for young Canadians.

This sounds like buying at the peak -- as we fall from the peak in the AI version of the Gartner Hype Cycle. Until we hit the bottom, I predict electrical power generation and transmission, or "Mechanical Canuck" style checkers.