Canada’s AI strategy must prioritize young workers

Canada can’t close its productivity gap while a generation of young workers loses out to automation. Delivering an AI plan that protects youth is a test of political credibility. Will Carney’s government pass it?

In the lead-up to the Nov. 4 federal budget, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon commissioned a task force to refresh Canada’s AI strategy and set priorities for 'nation-building' AI infrastructure. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ALONSO MUñOZ SANCHEZ

October 29, 2025

Canada’s 30-day artificial intelligence "national sprint" ended last week. In the lead-up to the Nov. 4 federal budget, Evan Solomon, the first-ever AI minister, commissioned a

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