Canada’s AI moment is a values-based one

Canada should step into the void on international cooperation on AI, making strategic use of its middle-power status and promoting the type of international growth it seeks to benefit from.

Canada’s new AI strategy should include a robust international objective to improve economic growth, write Kristen Cordell and Sabeen Dhanani.Photograph courtesy of cottonbro studio, Pexels.com

Opinion

BY KRISTEN CORDELL, SABEEN DHANANI

February 2, 2026

Canadian leadership was on full display at Davos recently. In front of a rapt audience, Prime Minister Mark Carney recognized the shifting geopolitical forces, and called on other “middle powers” to focus on “building coalitions that work—issue by issue, with partner...

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