[Fogest]

He went around the perimeter institute building in Waterloo Ontario in Canada and spent some time learning the basics and trying to understand the work that they do there. He did understand the basic ideas that he was saying, it wasn't just a script and he was active and engaged learning throughout the day. Obviously he won't understand very much detail about it, but he doesn't need to. He is a prime minister, not working in this complex field of study. His goal has been trying to understand these more modern technologies so that he can better make decisions for the future. It is important for policy makers to understand the things they are making decisions about.

[dnautics]

Can you point out to me in his quote what exactly you claim he understood?

"A quantum state can be much more complex than that, because as we know, things can be both particle and wave at the same time and the uncertainty around quantum states allows us to encode more information into a much smaller computer."

[Fogest]

Not sure what you mean here? He spent some time learning and asking questions to some very knowledgeable people in the quantum computing field. Are you trying to imply that he somehow despite all the time he spent that day did not learn anything at all about the quantum computing field? PR stunt or not he spent a good amount of time with these people and I don't see how he would not have learned anything there.