Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All

Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All, released in 2026 by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, sets out a national plan built on three principles—trust, opportunity, and sovereignty—with widespread AI adoption as its central aim. The strategy is organized around six pillars: protecting Canadians and safeguarding democracy; empowering Canadians through AI literacy and skills; powering shared prosperity by accelerating adoption among SMEs and transforming public services; building a sovereign AI foundation in compute, data, and talent; scaling Canadian AI champions; and building trusted partnerships and global alliances. It concentrates investment in five priority sectors: health and life sciences, energy and natural resources, transportation, agriculture, and manufacturing and robotics. Headline targets include raising business AI adoption from 12 percent to 60 percent by 2034, helping create up to 250,000 jobs, providing free AI literacy training, launching an AI Missions Program starting with $200 million for health, and building sovereign compute including a world-leading public supercomputer by 2031. The strategy is explicitly dynamic, to be reviewed and updated as the technology evolves.