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AI in Canada
A pro-growth AI power that guards its sovereignty, addressing AI risks through privacy and online-safety law rather than a dedicated AI Act.
- Added economic growth targeted by “AI for All” (Jun 2026)
- $200bn
- Budget 2025 funding for sovereign public AI compute
- $925.6M
- AI jobs targeted by the national strategy
- 250,000
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Strategy
“AI for All”, the national AI strategy launched in June 2026, targets $200bn of added growth and 250,000 AI jobs. Budget 2025 gave $925.6M over five years for sovereign public AI compute.
Regulation
No AI Act. Bill C-36 (tabled June 2026) requires transparency on automated decisions and creates a digital safety and data protection commission. The Canadian AI Safety Institute gets $50M under the new strategy.
Compute
The AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program opened in Apr 2026 to fund a public supercomputer, with about $890M over seven years.
Key labs
Mila, Vector Institute, Amii, Cohere, LawZero (Yoshua Bengio’s AI safety non-profit).
Notable models
Cohere Command A+ (May 2026): open weights under Apache 2.0, 48 languages.
What to watch
Whether Bill C-36 passes and the new regulator is set up; who wins the ~$890M supercomputer build; the Cohere–Aleph Alpha merger.