{"id":102863,"date":"2026-06-05T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102863"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:56:32","slug":"canadas-ai-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/05\/canadas-ai-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s AI “strategy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m at the point where I honestly can’t tell whether this is parody or actual Canadian government policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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AI in Canada lost before it even got started. <\/p>\n

They literally are trying to get AI to give a Land acknowledgement before any session.<\/p>\n

Here are 6 statements that show how Canada already blew AI like we all knew it would. <\/p>\n

1. “The Government of Canada commits to applying Gender-Based Analysis Plus in a meaningful way across policy design, skills development, innovation, and governance to ensure that AI reflects our values, protects those most impacted, and leads to outcomes that are safe, inclusive, and beneficial for all Canadians.”<\/p>\n

2. “Canadian AI must support, reflect, and project Canadian culture, which includes our customs, our history, and our heritage. Canadian voices, languages, communities, and knowledge must also be represented in how AI systems are designed, built, and used.”<\/p>\n

3. “support Indigenous self-determination over how AI is built and used in Indigenous contexts, and build domestic capacity to address the specific harms Indigenous Peoples face”.<\/p>\n

4. “promote the world’s first AI equity-based national standard on accessible AI to drive inclusive and accessible AI and remove accessibility barriers from AI systems, and ensure Canadian AI reflects the Accessible Canada Act<\/em> principles.”<\/p>\n

5. Repeated framing around “disproportionate exposure and impacts of AI harms to equity-seeking groups” and the need to “address the systemic barriers experienced by racialized communities, persons living with disabilities, and others who too often fall on the wrong side of the digital divide”.<\/p>\n

6. “Canada will support and amplify Indigenous-led AI initiatives that reinforce cultural expression and linguistic vitality in Canada and around the world, building on existing efforts …”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m at the point where I honestly can’t tell whether this is parody or actual Canadian government policy: AI in Canada lost before it even got started. They literally are trying to get AI to give a Land acknowledgement before any session. Here are 6 statements that show how Canada already blew AI like we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,84,28,53,15],"tags":[1506,438,254,351,1020],"class_list":["post-102863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-media","category-politics","category-technology","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-firstnations","tag-gender","tag-politicalcorrectness","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qL5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102865,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102863\/revisions\/102865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}