Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All

"AI for All" is Canada's renewed national AI strategy, launched by Prime Minister Mark Carney in Toronto on 4 June 2026 and led by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) under Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation. It emerged from the 30-day AI Sprint and AI Strategy Task Force engagement of late 2025 and the February 2026 summary of inputs.

Rather than replacing the 2017 Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the strategy builds on it. The strategy document names CIFAR and the three National AI Institutes (Amii, Mila, and Vector) — the research-and-talent foundation the earlier strategy created — as continuing Canadian strengths, and shifts the national focus from research and talent toward adoption, sovereignty, and infrastructure.

It is anchored in three fundamental priorities — building public trust, creating new opportunities, and reinforcing Canadian sovereignty — which ISED elaborates into six pillars: protecting Canadians and safeguarding democracy; empowering Canadians; powering AI adoption for shared prosperity; building a sovereign AI foundation; scaling Canadian champions; and building trusted partnerships.

Backed by roughly $2 billion in new federal investment over five years, its headline measures include:

• a national public AI supercomputer and sovereign compute and cloud infrastructure;
• an expanded Canadian AI Safety Institute to conduct transparent evaluations of AI models;
• a National AI Literacy Initiative reaching one million entry-level post-secondary students and training more than 3,000 educators;
• an AI Missions Program led by a flagship health mission;
• a Canadian Tech Growth Fund to scale domestic AI companies;
• a Sovereign Technology Alliance of international partners.

The government projects the strategy could unlock nearly $200 billion in economic growth over five years, create 250,000 new AI-related jobs, deliver 90,000 AI-related job placements for young Canadians, and raise business AI adoption from roughly 12% to 60% by 2034.