Why Canada must lead on AI in higher education now

In an era where the country’s future will be predicated on a strong and globally reputable post-secondary education system, Canada can combine pragmatic guardrails with the tools and talent to lead.

Evan Solomon is Canada's first minister of artificial intelligence. Canada must move quickly to set a national baseline for academic integrity in the AI era, as students across the country are actively using the technology, write Ann Fitz-Gerald and Dmytro Chumachenko.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANN FITZ-GERALD, DMYTRO CHUMACHENKO

September 8, 2025

Walk across any Canadian campus this fall and you will see the same quiet revolution. Students are prompting chatbots before they draft essays, labs are accelerating analysis with code-assistants, and instructors are wrestling with assessing learning in an age of ubiquitous ...

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