By Simon Blanchette
Publication Date: 2026-06-10 15:45:00
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada’s AI for All strategy on June 4, which includes more than $2 billion in new spending and targets $200 billion in additional GDP growth and 250,000 new jobs by 2031.
The plan is built on several pillars: sovereign AI infrastructure, skills and talent, adoption in enterprises and the public sector, support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and commitments to responsible AI, trust and cybersecurity. Canada currently lags behind most G7 countries in AI adoption; This strategy aims to change that.
However, the strategy’s growth objectives are much clearer than its accountability measures. Canada now has numerical targets for adoption, jobs and GDP growth, but fewer concrete commitments to measuring displacement, testing AI in the workplace, protecting affected workers, managing data or reporting on the environmental footprint of the infrastructure needed to operate.
What the strategy says about employees
Labor organizations criticized the…