"By doing so, our government can reclaim its position of moral leadership on the world stage"
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When did Canada lose its position of moral leadership on the world stage?
Is this a reference to selling billions of dollars of arms to the worst of the worst human rights violators, Saudi Arabia, in near secrecy? And then ignoring the evidence that the Saudis were using your weapons against civilians? Or going all the way back to the Afghan detainee scandal war crimes that Canada covered up from the rest of the world?
Refusing to pay your fair share to be a member of NATO and then selling China a Canadian hi-tech company that makes software with military applications used by NATO? Even after NATO asked you not to?
The recent UN report finding racism to be so ingrained in Canada that it's considered normal or not even noticed by the majority?

Too many skeletons in the closet for you. 
Very noble to lead the way in banning AI in war when you'll not be capable of it in the first place.