Braeden Caley
- Born
- Richmond, British Columbia
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts in political science, University of British Columbia; executive certificate in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Career
- Worked in a Member of Parliament's constituency office; director of policy and communications for Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson; senior director of communications for the Liberal Party of Canada; held senior roles on Liberal federal election campaigns (2015, 2019, 2021); executive director, then president and CEO of Canada 2020; campaign director for Mark Carney's 2025 Liberal leadership campaign; national campaign co-director for the Liberal Party; deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Mark Carney
- Political Experience
- First elected as MP for North Vancouver—Capilano in a 2026 by-election
- Notable
- Named to BC Business's Top 30 Under 30 in 2016; worked in Canadian politics for more than two decades before becoming a candidate; closely involved in Mark Carney's entry into federal politics, including advocating for a leadership race and helping soft-launch Carney's campaign
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Jonathan Wilkinson won with 37,907 votes (59.8%)
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Thank you very much Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses today. It's good to see several of you again. To switch gears just a tiny bit, I thought it could be useful to hear a little bit about the accountability side of things and a bit more about the public's interaction with the House of Commons. Before asking that, I'll compliment you on the work that's been done on this so far. In general,
Both are important now. This next question is a bit more technical and picks up on questions from a few colleagues. Is the pilot of Copilot the same instance or same initiative as within the public service, or are these developing in parallel to each other? Are there any best practices from both being developed in parallel—if I'm reading the head shaking correctly—that are being taken so far?
Are there particular barriers right now that you're sifting through as those requests increase?
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Technical difficulty—Editor [] your expertise and insights today. Returning us to the democracy and Parliament scope for a moment, I'll go to Mr. Bridgman and start with a very quick story on the question. I just ran, over the summer, in a by-election to have the chance to be here today. On the first full day of that campaign, we started hearing some interesting things
How might we require that platforms—we will call them that—would insist that this take place? You could think about voting information where there are clear Elections Act implications already. It's already against the law to share incorrect voting information. I don't think it would work as a defence for such a platform to say in those cases that it was lazily trained or the rest. For other
Okay. We're close to running out of time. As something to think about perhaps, I'll ask this question. At the high-effort scenario in these models, we've all talked about the extraordinary capacity to affect outcomes in all manner of human endeavour, and democratic campaigns could be one of them. How could we begin to track the spending that goes into the deployment of such things or even
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'll maybe start with Mr. Owen and pick up from where we were with your colleague a little bit. I'm struck, though, by the term you used of “democratic alignment”. I'll pick up on that and on how we ensure that these models and tools are, in their use and interactions with democratic processes, aligned with our democratic principles. The question I was asking your