warre & vavasourBudget 2026 Explorer

Budget 2026 · Lens

AI & digital in Budget 2026

AI and digital measures include AI for All (literacy, placements, sovereign compute, the Cohere equity investment), a Government Transformation Fund for IT projects, online safety and anti-fraud work.

$2.97BProgram spending 10 measures
1measures involve loans, equity or financing

Totals are five-year net impacts on the budgetary balance, kept separate by money type. A measure can appear under several lenses, so lens totals overlap and should not be added together.

W&V perspective · commentary

We build on Canadian models where we can, and we teach working businesses to use AI on real paperwork. The federal push into AI literacy and sovereign compute makes that work easier to start.

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