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Canada Releases New National-Security Plan That Names Frontier AI a Top Threat

The 13-page framework commits the government to modernize intelligence, protect eight strategic economic sectors, publish a new foreign policy next month, propose legal changes within a year, publish detailed defence and security policies in coming months

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European Commission's Special Envoy for the EU-Canada, Joost Korte, from left, President of the European Council Antonio Costa, Prime Minister Mark Carney and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen exit after attending a roundtable with business leaders during the Canada-EU Summit, in Montreal, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 24.
The Canadian Coast Guard's medium icebreaker Henry Larsen sails through Allen Bay during Operation Nanook near Resolute, Nunavut, Aug. 25, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Overview

  • The Plan for a Stronger Canada, released Thursday, is Ottawa’s first comprehensive national-security strategy since 2004 and sets a broad framework rather than detailed policy.
  • The document explicitly ranks frontier AI alongside war, espionage and sabotage as one of the greatest risks to Canadians and directs upgrades to cyber and intelligence defences to counter AI‑enabled threats.
  • The government pledges to strengthen the Communications Security Establishment, CSIS and defence intelligence, expand collection and analysis capabilities, and diversify intelligence partnerships beyond Five Eyes while deferring a decision on a separate foreign human‑intelligence agency.
  • The strategy defines sovereignty to include economic resilience and names eight strategic sectors to protect — emerging technologies, critical minerals, defence, energy, transportation, pharmaceuticals and biotech, food security, and payments and investment — with steps to build domestic capacity.
  • Implementation will follow a set timetable with a new foreign policy due in about a month, five detailed national policies to come in the months after, and legislative proposals to modernize national‑security laws within a year, but officials say delivery will require major funding, legal change and public and allied support.