Canada's first AI minister on his plan to scale up the industry

Open this photo in gallery: Mr. Solomon says part of Canada’s NATO spending will go toward supporting AI and quantum computing companies.Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press The federal minister of artificial intelligence said building large AI companies is an "urgent issue" for Canada, but added that the country has to work with foreign companies and partner with other nations to secure the necessary capital to build out its AI sector. "We need to really pick the companies that have the potential to scale," Evan Solomon told The Globe and Mail in an interview Tuesday. One way the government can do that…