AI Strategy for the Federal Public Service 2025-2027

Record CA-06

Issued by: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Jurisdiction: Canada
Level · region: National · North America
Published / adopted: 2025-03-04
Last updated: 2026-10-02
Language: English, French

Summary

Government-wide strategy for responsible AI adoption in federal institutions: lifecycle governance and risk frameworks proportionate to impact, ethics review of higher-risk projects with controls including emergency shutdown, security and reliability controls, an AI Centre of Expertise, and public transparency through a Government of Canada AI Register.

Safety topics

public-sector userisk-based classificationhuman oversighttransparency & labellingaccountability & liability

Status notes

Published by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat on 4 March 2025 after engagement from May to October 2024, including a public consultation from 16 September to 31 October 2024; the What We Heard report followed on 30 January 2025. It applies to AI in any department or agency covered by the Policy on Service and Digital; organisations exempt from that policy are encouraged to follow it. A first-year progress update added to the full text reports the fourth review of the Directive on Automated Decision-Making, the launch of the Government of Canada AI Register (a minimum viable product published on 28 November 2025) with public consultations on its design from January to March 2026, whose What We Heard report followed on 11 September 2026, and 14 research projects launched by the National Research Council under its Canadian AI Safety Institute mandate. The update says the strategy complements Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/responsible-use-ai/gc-ai-strategy-full-text.html

Secondary source: https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/responsible-use-ai/gc-ai-strategy-priority-areas.html

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 22:11:40 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/CA-06/2026-10-11/official.html

Retrieved 2026-10-11 13:59:40 UTC

SHA-256 7220e1dab9046883981681fce8d6ac2e2b4418d92c06a0cc106d905d21315c3b

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/CA-06/2026-10-11/secondary.html

Retrieved 2026-10-11 13:59:44 UTC

SHA-256 f7990cf421b9e71439001bee2dbeda62f461dd2953741d62372511d7eb496bbc

Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched

Recheck of 17 Oct 2026: re-read the strategy's full-text page on canada.ca (stored 11 Oct 2026; the archiver found it unchanged on 17 Oct 2026), which now ends with 'An Update on our Progress' on the first year and shows 'Page details 2026-10-02', and the priority-areas page (secondary source, page date 2026-02-25). The strategy's own pages show only the year of publication; the date of 4 March 2025, the consultation dates and the What We Heard reports rest on TBS's 'Progress on AI in government' page, stored in this run on 17 Oct 2026. The earlier source for the date, the priority-areas page's metadata, is not in its stored text.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 6 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-18notes: Published 4 March 2025 after consultation (16 Sept–31 Oct 2024; What We Heard re → Published by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat on 4 March 2025 after enga — rewritten: the engagement period and scope from the strategy text; the first-year progress update now on the full-text page (fourth DADM review, AI Register and its consultations, NRC projects under the CAISI mandate, relation to AI for All) added; publication, consultation and What We Heard dates now quoted from TBS's progress page, with the AI Register's publication (28 Nov 2025) and its What We Heard report (11 Sep 2026)2026-10-17-recheck-north-america-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

DADM Canada · In force

GC Generative AI Guide Canada · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. AI Strategy for the Federal Public Service 2025-2027. 2025-03-04. https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/responsible-use-ai/gc-ai-strategy-full-text.html. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/CA-06/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 13:59:40 UTC, SHA-256 7220e1dab9046883981681fce8d6ac2e2b4418d92c06a0cc106d905d21315c3b. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record CA-06.

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