{"id":"delivering-benefits-ai-all-canadians-ai-all","slug":"delivering-benefits-ai-all-canadians-ai-all","title":"Delivering the benefits of AI for all Canadians - AI for All","chapter":5,"section":"5.2","section_title":"Keeping Canadians safe at home","heading":"Delivering the benefits of AI for all Canadians","in_cost_table":true,"capital":false,"fiscal":{"unit":"CAD millions","basis":"accrual, incremental impact on budgetary balance (expense or forgone revenue)","years":["2026-27","2027-28","2028-29","2029-30","2030-31"],"gross":[257.0,346.0,551.0,562.0,323.0],"gross_total":2038.0,"flags":[null,null,null,null,null],"adjustments":[],"net":[257.0,346.0,551.0,562.0,323.0],"net_total":2038.0,"table":{"pdf_page":299,"printed_page":283}},"description":null,"commitments":[{"text":"Budget 2026 proposes to provide $6.2 million over four years, starting in 2027-28, to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to support this work.","pdf_page":288,"printed_page":272,"quote":"Budget 2026 proposes to provide $6.2 million over four years, starting in 2027-28, to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to support this work."},{"text":"Building on these initiatives: Budget 2026 announces that Canada's new government will enable Canadian AI companies to access 500 MW of sovereign AI compute through new financial tools, such as backstops and offtake agreements, to mobilise private capital and expand compute capacity.","pdf_page":289,"printed_page":273,"quote":"Building on these initiatives: Budget 2026 announces that Canada's new government will enable Canadian AI companies to access 500 MW of sovereign AI compute through new financial tools, such as backstops and offtake agreements, to mobilise private capital and expand compute capacity."}],"amounts_in_text":["$2.7 billion","$162 million over five years","$150 million","$1.6 billion","$6.2 million over four years, starting in 2027-28"],"source":{"pdf_page":287,"printed_page":271,"chapter_url":"https://budget.canada.ca/2026/report-rapport/chap5-en.html"},"money_type":"spending","involves_loans":true,"lenses":["businesses","investment","training","ai-digital"],"wv_note":"Free national AI literacy is the floor, and it is welcome. Our Desk Literacy class is the shop-floor version: three hours on site, built around your own quotes, schedules and paperwork. It complements the national initiative and is not part of it. The Cohere investment matters to us too: our workspaceAlberta tools are built on Canadian models.","wv_watch":"Mitacs AI placements: a funded way for a small business to host a student on an AI project.","key_facts":[{"text":"Canada's National AI Strategy, AI for All, launched in June 2026 with an initial $2.7 billion on a cash basis.","pdf_page":287,"printed_page":271},{"text":"A National AI Literacy Initiative with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) will provide free AI training.","pdf_page":287,"printed_page":271},{"text":"$162 million over five years for Mitacs to co-fund 10,000 work placements helping businesses use AI: the first of up to 90,000 AI-related opportunities planned by 2031.","pdf_page":287,"printed_page":271},{"text":"An equity investment of up to $1.6 billion in Cohere, which the budget says will create at least 1,000 technical jobs in Canada by 2030.","pdf_page":288,"printed_page":272},{"text":"Work is underway to give all university, college and CEGEP students access to trusted AI agents.","pdf_page":288,"printed_page":272},{"text":"Canadian AI companies will be able to access 500 MW of sovereign AI compute through new financial tools.","pdf_page":289,"printed_page":273}],"url":"https://budget2026.warreandvavasour.com/measures/delivering-benefits-ai-all-canadians-ai-all/","chapter_title":"A safe and sovereign Canada"}