Overview

• AI Minister Evan Solomon unveiled a roughly 20-member AI Strategy Task Force at Montreal’s All In conference with a 30-day deadline to deliver recommendations.
• The government will reveal the task force membership later this week, with members asked to consult their networks and propose bold, practical actions.
• Public consultations on the national approach begin in October, with a refreshed AI strategy slated to be tabled later this year.
• The panel’s remit covers research, adoption, commercialization, investment, infrastructure, skills, and safety and security, building on recent federal compute and AI safety commitments.
• Ottawa flagged near-term privacy reform to update a 25-year-old law and teased an October quantum initiative to help retain Canadian talent and intellectual property as part of a digital sovereignty push.