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Canada

60/100
attention index

Attention higher than 93% of countries

#11 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026

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The country in the five views

Attention60
Adoption31
Regulation88
Problems and attacks52
Opportunities52

/Why this colour

how it is computed

Reported incidents97

32 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries

AI exposure49

percentile among countries

Generative AI use in the population: 38.5% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report

Businesses using AI (OECD): 8.3% (2023) · OECD

AI compute capacity: 3,109 (2026-11) · Epoch AI — GPU Clusters

Missing safeguards22

100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards

Regulatory quality: +1.44 (2025) · World Bank

Rule of law: +1.48 (2025) · World Bank

Voice and accountability: +1.50 (2025) · World Bank

The state and AI

how it is computed

Not part of the attention index

Openness to AI

Exposure to threats

as a target 49 · as a cause 17

Open, little exposedMedia coverage: high (6,049 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)

Why this value

Exposure to threats = 50% × 49.1 (as a target) + 50% × 16.9 (as a cause) = 33

Reported cyber attacks against institutions and foreign disinformation

Social media monitoring, government disinformation, AI surveillance, spyware, internet shutdowns

What protects

Government access to personal data (V-Dem, expert scale)87

2025 · V-Dem — Digital Society Project

Rule of law (0-100 score)83

2025 · World Bank

Data protection law100

2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker

Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)71

2026 · GIRAI — Global Index on Responsible AI

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What we cannot see

We count reported cyber attacks, not all those that happened; there is no worldwide measure of threats made with AI; for surveillance and spyware the sources stop at 2022-2024.

Examples

Examples, not a count

Incidents where the state uses AI

Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) AI Chatbot 'Charlie' Reportedly Gave Incorrect Tax Filing Guidance at Scale (in the incident list of this card)Dec 2025
Alleged AI Deepfake Videos Used to Lure Simcoe County, Ontario Residents in Crypto Scam (in the incident list of this card)Jun 2025

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/How the state uses it

how it works

Public register: it shows how transparent the country is about its systems, not how much it uses them.

412 public AI systems in the register

in use160

in development or not stated224

retired28

Main agencies

Canada School of Public Service31

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada26

National Research Council Canada25

Statistics Canada25

Global Affairs Canada21

Most recent cases

Adaptation of CanchatHousing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada · 2026 · in development or not statedAdaptation of Canchat to HICC environment and departmental needs: particularly knowledge repositories, models and use cases.
AI for weather predictionEnvironment and Climate Change Canada · 2026 · in development or not statedThe Meteorological Services of Canada (MSC) and Science & Technology Branch of ECCC are actively exploring AI for weather prediction. In 2023, MSC and ECCC's Science and Technology Branch published an AI Roadmap that outlines the path for integrating AI into MSC's forecasting processes through to…
Parliamentary Affairs TranscriberPublic Safety Canada · 2026 · in development or not statedAI-powered transcription system for Canadian Parliamentary committee meetings. The system processes ParlVu video recordings to generate searchable transcripts with automated speaker identification. It matches speakers against a database of 343 current MPs using multimodal AI analysis, then stores…
Predictive Maintenance AlgorithmsCanadian Air Transport Security Authority · 2026 · in development or not statedUsing AI to help optimize availability of screening equipment by predicting when a machine might fail.
PSChatPublic Safety Canada · 2026 · in development or not statedAI-powered enterprise chat platform for Public Safety Canada and Government of Canada employees. The system provides secure, bilingual (EN/FR) conversational AI access through a modern web interface with 30+ specialized agents covering domains such as cyber security, IT project costing, policy…
PSForgePublic Safety Canada · 2026 · in development or not statedAgent-driven software development platform that orchestrates teams of specialized AI agents to manage the complete software development lifecycle (SDLC). Rather than individual developers using AI assistants, PSForge coordinates governed agent teams — Business Analyst, Developer, QA, DevOps, and…
Supply Chain AssessorPublic Safety Canada · 2026 · in useAn AI enabled internal tool to support Public Safety Canada’s administration of the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act (Supply Chains Act). The solution applies a standardized assessment framework to analyze annual reports submitted by organizations covered by the…
AI Agents for Internal UseFinancial Consumer Agency of Canada · 2025 · in development or not statedAI Agents developed in-house in Copilot Studio for employee use, primarily for text analysis, consolidating large volumes of documentation, or eliminating manual metadata tagging on publications, speeches, etc.
AI AWS Transform - Mainframe Proof of ConceptCanada Revenue Agency · 2025 · in development or not statedUse AWS Transform – Mainframe in a proof of concept (PoC) to explore how AI can help us better understand and modernize our COBOL application landscape. The AI analyzes our legacy mainframe code to automatically identify key components, generate documentation and extract business logic.
AI Co-Facilitation (Sora)Canada School of Public Service · 2025 · in development or not statedVirtual assistant to support facilitators in live sessions and VILT.

Source: GC AI Register (Canada)

/What we cannot see

Incidents never reported by the press · reports of serious incidents sent to the authorities and not published · systems registered in the non-public part of the EU database.

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