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The RPC will legislate a ban in Canada on unethically created AI and refer all AI companies that may have used Canadian-copyrighted material for criminal investigation of copyright infringment, including financial compensation for victims.

The RPC will legislate technical and non-technical requirements (e.g., audio/video watermarking, metadata source citations, digital signatures/certificates) to reduce the incredible potential for abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as impersonation fraud and the spread of disinformation. We will also enact new limitations on scenarios when and where AI cannot be used and rules governing AI decision making, especially as it pertains to self-modification and interactions with humans and the environment.

The RPC will add reliable, personal access to electronic audio, video, and textual communications services, free press, and high-speed Internet to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The RPC will curtail ownership rights of musical concepts in favour of greatly strengthening the ownership rights of musicians producing musical expressions.

The RPC will legislate complete and irrevocable net neutrality across all public core networks.

The RPC will establish a public telecommunications organization to compete with private telecommunications businesses until such time as they are nationalized entirely.

The RPC will mandate complete replacement of current encryption in banking and government standards with quantum-safe equivalents

The RPC will legislate prohibiting personal and private ownership rights of scientific research in favour of putting all such research (e.g., medicine, physics, chemistry, engineering) into the public domain.

The RPC will curtail ownership rights of software concepts in favour of greatly strengthening the ownership rights of software developers producing novel software.

The RPC will prohibit foreign ownership of Canadian telecommunications and media organizations and enact stricter limits on foreign ownership, control. and censorship of content services offered to Canadians.

The RPC will increase the CBC's budget and strengthen protection against future governments' ability to defund or editorialize our vital national media.

The RPC will increase the CRTC's budget, strengthen protection against future governments' ability to defund the organization or politicize their policy decisions, and expand their purview of oversight and power to enact meaningful and effective regulations.

The RPC will legislate new and severe financial and criminal penalties for organizations and powerful individuals who abuse their platforms to intentionally spread disinformation.