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Canada’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All Canada’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All Canada’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All (PDF, 2.

37 MB) Message from the minister The Government’s vision: AI for All Key pillars of the strategy Pillar 1: Protecting Canadians and safeguarding democracy Pillar 2: Ensuring AI empowers Canadians Pillar 3: Powering AI adoption for shared prosperity Pillar 4: Building the Canadian sovereign AI foundation Pillar 5: Scaling Canadian champions Pillar 6: Building trusted partnerships and global alliances Message from the minister An innovative Canada is a stronger Canada.

And AI is the major driver of innovation in Canada and around the world. But to understand the potential of Canadian AI, you have to see how it is already working to improve the lives of people. How a Canadian pediatric cardiologist in Halifax named Dr. Robert Chen is using the AI application he built to diagnose heart murmurs in newborns.

His technology could cut down wait times by many months for anxious parents to see a specialist, saving our health care system tens of millions of dollars. You have to see how a Canadian AI company called Croptimistic is helping farmers precisely map their soil. This technology allows them to use less fertilizer, while increasing crop yield, making our food system more resilient and more affordable.

You have to see how Canadian AI is helping businesses in advanced manufacturing, auto parts, and mining stay competitive even through global trade disruptions. These aren't isolated stories. Over 150,000 Canadian innovators employed by more than 3,500 Canadian companies are developing AI solutions that will build a stronger, more resilient economy, solve problems, serve people, and create good, high paying jobs.

Canada’s new AI strategy will build on this momentum to develop a responsible, safe, and sovereign AI industry and research community — one that ensures AI will serve all Canadians, not the other way around. Canada must be open to the enormous opportunities in AI, but we must also be candid about the real concerns. AI raises hard questions about job security, privacy, sustainability, sovereignty, and trust.

Responding to these concerns and building responsible Canadian AI will not be easy, but it must be done. We will face these challenges head on. This is exactly the pragmatic and prudent approach Canadians told us they wanted.

Through our national consultation, we received more than 11,000 submissions from workers, entrepreneurs, researchers, students, and community leaders across the country. We also received insights from our 28-member expert AI Strategy Task Force.

We heard from First Nations, Métis and Inuit leaders, arts and culture organizations, labour and environmental groups, and many others concerned about economic growth, AI safety, and the welfare of children. This strategy reflects their voices, their concerns, and their ambitions for our country. We will strengthen Canadian sovereignty at a time when it is being deeply challenged.

We will build a robust, advanced economy for all, where our workers and SMEs are adopting AI at a wide scale and competing globally. We will build resilience with new alliances among like-minded countries to ensure that Canadians have choices in the AI tools they use. And we will build this on a foundation of trust and safety.

We will protect our children and our citizens, our culture and languages, and our democracy. Canadians want safe, reliable, and sovereign AI. They want the best tools to build a prosperous future guided by our values.

That is our plan. This is Canada's AI for All moment. Let’s seize it.

The Government’s vision: AI for All Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming part of daily lives — at work, at school, at home, and in the businesses, organizations, and governments that shape our communities. What we are seeing today is only the beginning. The speed and scale of this transformation bring both promise and uncertainty about how AI will affect our jobs, privacy, security, and the institutions we rely on.

For Canada to thrive in the era of AI, Canadians need to trust in its promise. Trust that they will share in its benefits and that it will be developed, adopted, and governed in ways that reflect our shared values. Trust is the north star of this strategy.

Prosperity and sovereignty in this era belong to nations that can leverage trust to adopt, build, and govern AI on their own terms. AI must also work for all Canadians, not the other way around. It must be put to work to grow our prosperity and wellbeing, promote our culture, and strengthen our communities.

We envision a Canada where AI is not a threat, but a critical piece of technology which enhances everyday life for Canadians. Done right, AI can be a powerful force – harnessed with innovation and deployed with intention for the betterment of society. We must implement this vision with urgency: this moment carries both extraordinary opportunity and profound strategic risk for Canada.

AI is rapidly becoming a foundational driver of economic growth, productivity, industrial capability, and geopolitical influence. Nations that lead in AI will increasingly shape global markets, technological standards, supply chains, and the broader balance of economic and political power. This transformation is already underway.

This strategy asserts that adoption will drive AI’s benefits for Canadians. For Canadians to benefit from AI, they must first learn to use it. To use it, they need to trust it.

And for AI to benefit Canadians, it needs to present them with new opportunities grounded in technological infrastructure over which they have a meaningful degree of sovereign control. Trust makes adoption possible. Opportunity and sovereignty ensure adoption creates benefits for Canadians now and in the future.

To realize this vision, this strategy sets out six pillars: To foster trust , we will: protect Canadians from the risks and harms of AI , creating rules and safeguards that build and maintain trust; and strengthen multinational partnerships with trusted allies , shaping an international AI community and global standards that reflect values of mutual respect and cooperation.

To provide opportunity , we will: power shared prosperity through Canadian institutions and companies , channeling adoption into the quality work, economic activity, and public services that benefit Canadians broadly; and empower Canadians to participate in and benefit from AI , building the understanding and access that enables Canadians to shape how we use AI in Canada and pursue the opportunities AI adoption creates.

To safeguard sovereignty , we will: support globally competitive Canadian champions , giving Canadian AI companies the resources and reach they need to project Canadian strength outward; and build sovereign Canadian AI foundations in compute, data, talent, and infrastructure , ensuring Canadians can trust that the systems they adopt are built and governed on Canadian terms.

Notably, while these pillars form an enduring foundation for Canada's approach to AI, our implementation of them must adapt as the world changes. Technological, social, and geopolitical forces are driving change in unexpected ways and at staggering speeds. As a result, a commitment to dynamism is part of this strategy.

Together, these pillars, combined with a commitment to clear-eyed agility, form a coordinated national strategy for Canadian prosperity, resilience, and sovereignty in the AI era. A circular diagram illustrating the six pillars of Canada's National AI Strategy surrounding the central theme “AI for All.

” Pillar 1 (Protecting Canadians and Safeguarding Democracy) Pillar 2 (Empowering Canadians) Pillar 3 (Powering Shared Prosperity) Pillar 4 (Building the Canadian Sovereign AI Foundation) Pillar 5 (Scaling Canadian Champions) Pillar 6 (Building Trusted Partnerships and Global Alliances). Around the center are three key values—Trust, Opportunity, and Sovereignty—each linked by the concept of “Adoption.

” Simple icons represent each pillar. The diagram emphasizes how the pillars collectively support the AI for All vision through adoption, trust, opportunity, and sovereignty. The state of AI in Canada An important contributor to Canada’s economy The Canadian AI ecosystem has demonstrated strengths in AI research, but it is also a significant contributor to Canada’s economic performance.

Canada’s strong digital sector employs approximately 800,000 workers and contributes over $140 billion to GDP, with 150,000 jobs directly associated with AI. Over 3,500 Canadian firms are actively developing advanced AI models, tools, and applications, collectively raising more than CAD$37 billion in venture capital funding. Continued growth is expected to further expand this contribution.

AI is also a key element of productivity growth across the broader economy, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and government services. There are significant benefits of broader AI adoption and commercialization, which are forecasted to generate a 0. 3 percent to 1.

1 percent annual labour productivity increase even before the Strategy’s impacts. Some estimates for generative AI alone add $187 billion annually to the Canadian economy by 2030 and create hundreds of new Canadian firms. In addition to economic vitality, Canada's AI ecosystem reflects a high degree of maturity and integration across the full technological value chain.

The key elements of the AI ecosystem include: AI applications, embedded AI and physical AI: practical, enterprise-focused and industry-specific applications for core economic sectors, such as Clio, Sanctuary AI, and Ada. This is an emerging area where Canada will need greater volume of firms and higher levels of adoption.

Models, tools and integrators: AI models and the frameworks used to build, train, and deploy them, such as Cohere, Coveo, and OpenText. Canada is home to global enterprise integrators and a foundation model firm, with increasing integration into larger players in the economy.

Data centres and cloud: A growing build-out of cloud-based and on-premises environments hosting compute hardware at scale — including Denvr, eStruxture, and ThinkOn. Canada's sovereign compute capacity is nascent, particularly in cloud, and significant investment will be required to overcome reliance on foreign providers.

Infrastructure and compute hardware: Cooling, connectivity, networking, and AI chips, racks, and servers — brought together by firms like Hypertec and Micrologic with equipment from Ranovus and Celestica, alongside Rogers, Bell, and Telus networks. The global data centre build-out has driven real growth for Canada's hardware value chain, with the exception of chips, where Canada relies on global fabrication capacity for GPUs.

Energy and power: Canada's electricity grid underpins the entire AI value chain. It is sustainable and predictable, but currently constrained.

Canada’s new National Electricity Strategy, Powering Canada Strong: A National Strategy for an Electrified Canadian Economy, sets out a vision to build Canada’s electricity system, recognizing that Canada will need to double its electricity infrastructure by 2050, which will allow for the pairing of sustainable base load with sovereign AI data centre build-outs.

Research and development: World-class research institutes advancing new AI methods and safety approaches, including CIFAR, the three National AI Institutes (Amii, Mila, and Vector), and the Global Innovation Clusters that translate Canadian research into AI-enabled technologies for core sectors. Canada's research leadership is globally competitive, but requires further effort to drive commercialization.

The Government will leverage this whole value chain to accelerate its transformation and improve services to citizens. When we look at Canada today, several trends stand out. Together they describe a country with real and exploitable gaps, but also extraordinary foundations and the structural ingredients needed to lead.

Canada is an AI innovator. Canada helped invent modern AI, and that legacy is not just historical. The foundational ideas behind today's systems trace through Canadian researchers: Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, and Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio and Richard Sutton, the three so-called godfathers of AI.

That research strength continues today through globally competitive university programs and national institutes, and Canada is home to one of only a handful of frontier model companies in the world. By the measure that matters most for long-term competitiveness, Canada is genuinely a global leader. Canada has a major adoption gap.

Innovation has not yet translated into broad use. Statistics Canada reports that only 12 percent of Canadian businesses used AI to produce goods or services between mid-2024 and mid-2025, rising to 14. 5 percent planning to do so by mid-2026.

The picture is sharper among small and medium-sized enterprises: only about 8 percent of Canadian SMEs have adopted AI, well behind Nordic leaders (29 to 42 percent), Germany (26 percent), and France (18 percent). On individual diffusion, Canada sits 15th globally at a respectable 37 percent, yet still trailing the UAE, Singapore, Norway, and several peers. The deeper challenge is what sits underneath these numbers.

According to the KPMG–University of Melbourne global trust study, Canada ranked 44th of 47 countries on AI training and literacy, and 42nd of 47 on trust in AI systems. Fewer than a quarter of Canadians (24 percent) report having received any AI training, fewer than four in ten say they have moderate or high knowledge of AI, and less than half believe they can use AI tools effectively.

Public sentiment is cautious to skeptical: Canadians are roughly evenly split on whether AI is good for society (34 percent) or harmful (36 percent), and half regard AI as a threat to humanity. Initial adoption has happened; deeper, confident integration has not, and low literacy and low trust are the binding constraints. Canada is vulnerable on sovereignty and infrastructure.

The AI value chain runs from energy and chips through compute, models, and applications. Canada has presence at every layer, but meaningful dependencies at several. Sovereign compute capacity is nascent, leaving Canadian organizations reliant on foreign providers for the infrastructure that increasingly underpins economic, scientific, and public-sector activity.

Chip fabrication for GPUs sits almost entirely offshore. Energy is both an asset and a current constraint: Canada's grid is among the cleanest in the world, but available power for large-scale AI buildout is limited today. And while research leadership is world-class, the path from research to commercialization remains thinner than it should be.

Too much Canadian innovation is captured and scaled elsewhere. In an era where prosperity, resilience, and sovereignty increasingly depend on the ability to build and govern AI on national terms, these are vulnerabilities Canada cannot leave unaddressed. Canada has major structural advantages in an AI world.

The starting position is, on balance, enviable. Canada brings deep human and institutional capital to the AI era: a highly educated workforce, one of the strongest concentrations of AI talent on the planet, deep capital markets, and rich data assets in sectors where AI will create outsized value, from health and life sciences to energy, agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, and public services.

It brings physical advantages few competitors can match: a clean, predictable electricity grid, supported by our National Electricity Strategy and powered largely by renewables, and a northern climate that reduces the cost and energy intensity of cooling data centres at scale.

And it brings civic strengths that matter as much as any technology: robust democratic institutions, a strong rule of law, a tradition of pragmatic regulation that can govern AI responsibly without smothering innovation, and the international standing — through the G7 and longstanding partnerships — to help shape the global rules under which AI will operate. Canada is a trusted partner on the world stage.

Decades of democratic stability, principled diplomacy, and rules-based cooperation have made Canada a partner of choice for governments and firms seeking AI collaborations rooted in shared values rather than shifting alliances.

In the past year alone, Canada has signed 20 new economic and defence partnerships and secured nearly $100 billion in foreign investment commitments, with free trade negotiations advancing in parallel with India, ASEAN, and beyond.

Eleven of those partnerships explicitly advance cooperation on artificial intelligence, spanning four continents and topics from AI safety standards and sovereign infrastructure to industrial deployment and business-to-business matchmaking. Properly built upon, this standing can convert structural advantage into markets, investment, and coalitions.

This is where Canada stands today: innovative, structurally advantaged, but lagging in adoption and over-exposed to foreign economic and political powers. The strengths are substantial , the gaps are addressable, and the foundation is more than equal to the task. With strategic intent and effort, Canada can shape its own future in an AI-powered world, overcome the challenges in its path, and seize the opportunities it wants and needs.

By building on our strengths, investing in our emerging capabilities, and entering strategic partnerships with key allies, we can enhance our sovereignty, unlock productivity gains, and grow global champions in Canada. Canada’s new AI Strategy will: Protect Canadians, particularly children, against AI risks and online harms, including by safeguarding their personal information and increasing AI transparency.

Provide all Canadians with access to free AI literacy training, including reaching 1 million entry-level post-secondary students and doubling K-12 teacher training to more than 3,000 educators. Ensure all post-secondary students have access to trusted AI agents. Create up to 90,000 AI-related jobs and work placement opportunities for young Canadians to start their careers and support SMEs and nonprofits by 2031.

Help create up to 250,000 new jobs through the adoption of AI by 2031. Increase Canada’s business adoption of AI from 12 percent today to 60 percent by 2034, through boosting SMEs and business adoption supports. Support the unlocking of a 3 percent increase in GDP, representing nearly $200 billion in GDP gains, from labour productivity, including through the commercialization and application of AI in key sectors.

Launch a new AI Missions Program to advance targeted, high-impact projects that deliver significant public good and demonstrate meaningful improvements in Canadians' lives, starting with $200 million towards improving health outcomes for Canadians. Build a world-leading supercomputer as part of significantly enhanced sovereign infrastructure by 2031.

Enhance access to public compute for SMEs to drive commercialization and adoption through the Compute Access Fund. Build a strategic multilateral alliance to ensure Canada moves from reliance to resilience by having sovereign autonomy in key AI and technology capabilities. Key pillars of the strategy Pillar 1: Protecting Canadians and safeguarding our democracy AI will only deliver on its promise if Canadians trust it.

That requires modern privacy and online safety laws, strong national AI safety capabilities, and secure government systems. Pillar 2: Empowering Canadians Canada must become an AI skills nation, where AI creates good jobs for Canadians by giving access to AI training and education for all Canadians, and by representing and including Canadian voices, languages, and culture.

Pillar 3: Powering AI adoption for shared prosperity The gains of AI will come from putting it to work across the Canadian economy and developing pro-worker, industrial AI technologies. AI for All will support accelerated adoption among SMEs and transform public service delivery for better services to Canadians.

Pillar 4: Building the Canadian sovereign AI foundation AI for All will support the building of sovereign compute infrastructure at scale — resilient, sustainable, and under Canadian governance, and grow Canada's exceptional AI researchers and talent pool. Pillar 5: Scaling Canadian champions To scale great AI companies in Canada, AI for All will unlock growth capital and leverage government as a strategic anchor customer.

Pillar 6: Building trusted partnerships and global alliances Canada will work with a variety of trusted partners to align standards, co-invest in innovation, and help Canadian companies access global markets — while shaping an AI ecosystem anchored in democratic values.

Alongside continued investment in Canada's AI ecosystem, we will focus on sectors where our scientific, economic and industrial strengths converge — and where strategic investment can deliver both commercial success and sovereign resilience.

These five priority sectors will act as focal points across the strategy, concentrating investment where Canada can build and hold a global leadership position: Health and life sciences: World-class research institutions, a universal health system, and a fast-growing life sciences sector position Canada to lead in applying AI to improve health outcomes and deliver faster, more responsive health care services for Canadians.

Energy and natural resources: As one of the world's largest energy producers with globally significant critical mineral reserves, Canada can use AI to optimize extraction, accelerate the clean energy transition, and secure supply chains allies depend on.

Transportation: The second-largest country on earth with a trade-dependent economy needs intelligent logistics, autonomous systems, and predictive infrastructure maintenance to improve the movement of people and goods, making life more efficient for Canadians.

Agriculture: Among the world's top agricultural exporters, Canada can deploy AI-powered precision farming to increase yields, reduce environmental impact, and strengthen global food security. Manufacturing and robotics: Persistent labour shortages and growing reshoring pressures make industrial AI and robotics essential to transforming Canadian competitiveness in advanced manufacturing and defence production.

Given Canada’s national security commitments and the recently released Defence Industrial Strategy, sector investments will also prioritize dual-use applications and ensure alignment with Canada’s protection, sovereignty and security objectives.

Pillar 1: Protecting Canadians and safeguarding our democracy Canada's ability to harness AI begins with safety – the most fundamental form of trust and a key component of creating healthy adoption opportunities. Citizens, workers, and institutions will not adopt technologies they consider dangerous or harmful to themselves, their families, and their communities.

Trust is not a brake on innovation; it is the foundation that makes broad, confident adoption possible. A Canada that protects its people, its democracy, and its sovereign capabilities is a Canada that can move faster, not slower, in the AI era. The risks of AI are real.

Adoption means that AI systems will make consequential decisions about Canadians' lives in hiring, lending, healthcare, and public services. Already, deepfakes, synthetic media, and AI-generated disinformation are reshaping the information environment in which people live and in which democratic debate takes place. This has direct implications for elections, public discourse, and trust in institutions.

Furthermore, the data that fuels AI, including the most sensitive personal, health, and financial information about Canadians, is more valuable, more exposed, and more contested than ever. As a result, AI protections extend beyond AI itself to the digital systems on which government services, critical infrastructure, and national security depend. Meeting these challenges requires more than caution.

It requires that Canada actively safeguard the rights of citizens, strengthen institutions charged with our safety, and establish key sovereign capabilities that allow citizens and government alike to engage with AI on trusted terms.

Canada will ground its AI future in responsible governance, a country where technological progress and human dignity advance together, and where the trust between citizens and their government is strengthened by AI, not strained by it. Strengthen Canadian democracy, safety, and privacy in the AI era Building trustworthy and reliable AI needs a safety-first approach grounded in law.

Many Canadians are concerned about how AI may affect their privacy, fairness, and safety. Deepfakes are already used as a form of sexual violence, particularly against women and children, and can amplify misinformation during electoral cycles, creating real risks to democratic integrity. Biases built into algorithms can also cause harm to vulnerable communities.

Canada will update the laws and standards that protect Canadians' fundamental privacy rights, safeguard children's online activities and protect vulnerable groups from online violence and algorithmic biases. This will include providing Canadians with the legal tools to combat deepfakes, ensure that interactions with chatbots are safe, and hold those responsible for online harms accountable.

Canada will also strengthen its privacy laws to ensure that Canadians’ personal information is not used inappropriately, including for surveillance pricing. Canada will modernize consumer privacy legislation to enshrine a fundamental right to privacy, safeguard children’s information from exploitation and harm, and strengthen people’s control over their personal data.

Canada will introduce online safety laws to protect Canadians in the digital age, ensuring citizens, children, and customers are safeguarded. Canada will protect elections and democratic institutions from AI‑enabled misinformation and foreign interference. For the Government’s own use of personal information, the Government will continue its review of the Privacy Act to meets the needs of Canadians in the digital age.

This will include considerations around transparency, privacy, and alignment with international standards. Ensure Canadian AI infrastructure is safe and trustworthy With the rapid expansion of AI capabilities and the growing adoption of agentic AI, Canadians need to know which AI systems are safe to use, how risks are being identified, and what standards apply.

Clear signals of safety and accountability help people, businesses, and public institutions make informed choices, particularly when it comes to identifying AI-generated content, when they are engaging an AI system, and by monitoring and reporting on AI incidents and system operations.

Canada will invest $50 million to expand the capabilities of the Canadian AI Safety Institute to track emerging AI risks, advance technical research, and to conduct transparent evaluations of AI models. Canada will work on AI transparency, including capabilities like watermarking of AI-generated content, so Canadians can better understand when they are interacting with AI systems and AI-generated content.

Canada will proactively work with frontier AI companies and international partners, leveraging our strengths in AI safety and cybersecurity, to ensure that Canadians and critical systems are protected from cyber and national security threats from advanced AI systems. Canada will create a Canada Trusted AI Certification program to help Canadians identify trustworthy AI products in the marketplace.

Canada will renew funding for the Standards Council of Canada’s AI Program to support our standardization ecosystem, shape global AI standards, and grow a robust AI quality assurance ecosystem. This work will enable standards-based AI testing, certification, interoperability, and global market access.

Canada will accelerate, in partnership with law enforcement and security and intelligence agencies, applied AI research, testing, and deployment of Canadian technologies for fraud and extortion prevention, cyber defence, threat detection, and data protection. Pillar 2: Empowering Canadians A nation prospers in the AI era only if its people feel equipped and empowered to use it.

Benefits flow from adoption: better work, stronger services, new ideas, broader prosperity and greater wellbeing. However, they do not flow automatically from the technology itself; they flow through the citizens who understand it, use it, and shape it. AI for All is not a slogan about access to tools.

It is a commitment that every Canadian, in every region and at every stage of life can engage with AI from a position of strength. That commitment rests on three dimensions of empowerment. The first is literacy: the understanding that lets Canadians recognize AI, judge its outputs, and decide for themselves where it belongs in their lives.

Canada has a substantial gap in AI training and literacy, and closing it – from classrooms to workplaces to seniors' centres – is the foundation on which everything else depends. The second is opportunity: the conviction that AI should expand Canadians' personal and working lives rather than diminish them.

As roles evolve, governments, employers, educators, and unions must work together to expand learning, support mid-career transitions, and open pathways into the jobs AI is creating. AI adoption should mean better work and more good jobs, not fewer options. The third is participation: the principle that Canadians should actively shape how AI is used in their lives, their workplaces, and their communities.

That means individuals deciding when and how AI belongs in their daily lives. It means workers and professionals helping shape how AI is adopted in their workplaces. It means Canadians of every background, regardless of region, ethnicity, or first language having a meaningful voice in the public debates that will define AI's role in Canadian society.

Ultimately, empowered citizens — whether students, artists, community leaders, workers, or parents — know what responsible adoption looks like and are ready to participate. Their energy and vision make Canadian prosperity possible . Canada will build the literacy that lets Canadians engage with AI from a position of strength, create the opportunities that let them benefit from it, and open the pathways that let them shape it.

Progression of AI literacy and positive impacts on Canada A horizontal flowchart illustrating the progression from foundational AI literacy to advanced AI skills. The chart shows how increasing levels of AI understanding lead to improved employment opportunities, economic growth, and societal benefits for Canadians of all ages.

Foundational literacy to build an AI-skilled nation To realize AI's potential, Canadians need to understand what AI is, how it works, where it can help, and where its risks and limitations lie. Foundational AI literacy is essential to safe and confident use, whether at school, at work, at home, or in the community.

Canada is working with provinces and territories, employers, unions, educators, Indigenous partners, and community organizations to expand access to practical AI learning — spanning schools, post-secondary institutions, adult learning, workforce training, and public awareness initiatives. The aim of these literacy efforts is three-fold: helping Canadians understand AI, use AI, and build AI.

Crucially, this means that Canadians need experience with AI tools, which is something Canada will prioritize for post-secondary students who are preparing to join the workforce. The ultimate goal is to ensure Canadians are not passive users of AI, but informed participants in an AI-enabled society. That means providing Canadians with a range of practical skills including identifying bias, misinformation, privacy risks, and unsafe uses.

It also means giving them the confidence to use AI tools to learn, solve problems, start businesses, improve services, participate in the economy, and improve quality of work. Canada will create a National AI Literacy Initiative that will offer entry-level AI training accessible to all Canadians.

AI literacy content will reach 1 million entry level post-secondary students and train more than 3,000 educators with AI learning kits in their classrooms. Free, accessible AI learning will include practical courses and sector-relevant modules.

Canada will ensure all post-secondary students have access to trusted AI agents, putting capable, personal AI tools in the hands of the next generation of Canadian workers, researchers, and innovators.

Through the National AI Literacy initiative, Canada will empower public libraries and community organizations, long trusted as hubs for learning, as natural partners to bring AI literacy initiatives into every community, especially those in rural, remote, and northern regions.

Canada is investing $50 million over five years through Budget 2025 to modernize the Job Bank with AI-powered job matching that automatically aligns people with opportunities matching their skills profiles and has launched a national online training platform connecting adults to free and low-cost short-duration courses, including sector-specific AI literacy skills.