Data and analysis
How Canada is doing in AI
What governments have promised, who is using AI, how Canada ranks, and where its computing is built, each linked to its source.
The analyses
- Strategy
70 commitments; 5 show public evidence of delivery.
What governments have promised, and progress so far
Data updated September 25, 2026
- Adoption
19.2% of Canadian businesses use AI.
Which businesses and people are using AI
Data updated September 25, 2026
- Global standing
Ranked 12 of 195 on government readiness (Oxford Insights, 2025).
Where Canada ranks against other countries
Data updated October 1, 2026
- Data centres
89 sites mapped across Canada.
Where AI computing is being built in Canada
Data updated September 25, 2026
- Cohere vs the world
Benchmarks for Canada's largest AI lab against global labs.
How Canada's largest AI lab compares
Data updated September 25, 2026
- Timeline
43 milestones from 1973 to 2026.
Key moments in Canadian AI, in order
Data updated September 25, 2026
Business use, measured.
Business AI use · Q2 2026 measure
Businesses using AI to produce goods or deliver services in the 12 months before Q2 2026.
The latest official current-use measure and sector table for businesses using AI in the goods or services they provide. The measure excludes informal worker use and early experiments; it is not a measure of all AI activity. Source date: May 27, 2026.
Open the Statistics Canada tableA target needs a delivery measure.
AI-adoption jobs · target year 2031 · not jobs delivered
Help create new jobs through AI adoption across the Canadian economy by 2031.
This is an official outcome target. No public measurement series is wired for jobs attributable to AI adoption. Strategy record reviewed September 25, 2026.
Read the strategy sourceReadiness is one part of the picture.
Government AI readiness · Oxford Insights · 2025
How ready governments look to support, manage, and govern AI.
New 2025 method. Do not read it as a simple drop from 2024. A government-readiness rank does not measure all Canadian AI research, business performance, or adoption.
Read the index and methodology
Finch corridor, Toronto · Christine Hogenkamp · CC BY 4.0AI needs
a place to run.
Explore the Canadian data-centre directory by province, facility type, status, and record detail.
Explore the mapPhotography and evidence scope
The Toronto images are context photographs; they do not show a verified AI facility or the Waterloo partnership. The data-centre map uses approximate city-level locations and the directory remains a source-linked scan layer.