2026-06-19 from ctvnews.ca

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has launched Canada’s new comprehensive artificial intelligence strategy. It is broad in both aspiration and scope, and the government says it will take five years to implement.

However, one would be wise to assume it will be longer to implement and that there will be great variance in focus as AI strategy 1.0 ages, as technology, privacy issues, labour anxiety, politics, trade policy alignment all take their toll over time.

But the government’s first crack at framing known risks and opportunities of AI, along with committing real ambition, funding, benchmarks and timelines gives a structure to the policy debates around AI and meaningful focus after a long period of Canada being in a policy wilderness.

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