Canada draft AI strategy focuses on adoption, literacy and sovereignty
Canada AI strategy aims to boost business adoption, training, and domestic infrastructure. See how Ottawa plans to grow AI jobs, safety, and sovereign capacity by 2031.
Canada’s draft national AI strategy outlines plans to expand business adoption of artificial intelligence, offer free AI literacy training, and build more domestic AI infrastructure by 2031.
The document, titled "AI for All" and obtained by CBC News, was presented to federal cabinet last week and could still change before it is finalized. It sets out six priorities, including protecting Canadians, increasing AI use in business, strengthening sovereign AI capacity, and supporting Canadian AI companies.
Among the draft goals are training students and the broader public in AI use, creating tens of thousands of AIrelated jobs, helping small businesses adopt the technology, and updating safety and privacy measures. It also calls for more investment in data centres, compute power, research talent, and government AI procurement as Ottawa seeks to reduce reliance on foreign providers.