Canada’s AI challenge is readiness, not infrastructure

Governance capacity and workforce preparedness, not compute spending, will determine whether Canada captures AI's economic promise.
In past technological revolutions, most economic value flowed to those who used the technology, not to those who built the infrastructure, writes Umar Ruhi.

Canada is caught in a high-stakes paradox. We are investing billions of dollars in the "pipes" of the 21st-century economy—sovereign compute, hyperscale data centres, and research clusters—while the "machinery" of our businesses remains stalled.

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