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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.

Profile reviewed 24 Sep 202616 developments tracked

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.
Sources
  1. AI for All launch (Prime Minister’s Office)
  2. Minister Solomon on the strategy (ISED)
  3. Bill C-36 (ISED)
  4. Supercomputing initiative (ISED)
  5. AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program
  6. Budget 2025 (Miller Thomson)
  7. Command A+ (Cohere)

Canada on the timeline

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  1. Dropout curbs overfitting
  2. AlexNet wins ImageNet
  3. Deep networks take over speech recognition
  4. Generative adversarial networks introduced
  5. Hopfield and Hinton win the Nobel Prize in Physics
  6. Canada announces up to C$1.6bn equity stake in Cohere

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