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Analysis: Canada's AI Strategy Compared to CIPPIC's By Jennifer Turliuk & David Fewer Canada’s new AI strategy, AI for All, gets important things right. It treats AI adoption as a national priority. It recognizes that trust, opportunity, and sovereignty belong in the core of a Canadian AI strategy. It invests in compute, skills, commercialization, health data, open-source AI, and Canadian capacity. Those are welcome commitments. They also mirror many of the policy positions C

Six months ago, I wrote a post arguing for stronger protections for minors on AI platforms, calling for shared responsibility among developers, legislators, parents, and educators. The Tumbler Ridge mass shooting has made the need for these protections impossible to ignore. It has forced Canada to open a policy conversation it can no longer defer. In the aftermath of this tragedy, the chambers of commerce in Tumbler Ridge and Prince George are urging Ottawa and the governmen

The emergence of advanced AI and the real possibility of future systems approaching Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is not merely a new factual scenario for old statutes. It signals a structural challenge to the Canadian intellectual property framework itself. Canadian legal culture has long been guided by the “Law of the Horse”, Frank Easterbrook’s warning that technology-specific legislation is usually unnecessary. This narrative holds that the Copyright Act and Paten