Promise Tracker
A conservative public register for the six pillars, official outcome targets, and explicit key actions in Canada's National AI Strategy. Strategy promises are commitments, not proof of delivery.
Promise Tracker
Four lanes translate the official strategy register into a public-accountability view. Each lane opens the same promise register with the existing filter contract.
Official commitment or policy work exists, but delivery proof is not yet public.
Open laneActive15promise rowsFunding or program machinery is visible; outcome evidence still needs watching.
Open laneDelivered2promise rowsA launch or current public baseline is visible. This is evidence, not a final outcome claim.
Open laneNeeds Evidence34promise rowsThe strategy promise exists, but the tracker needs a separate progress source.
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Commitments where the next public document or report would most directly improve the tracker.
Support applied AI research, testing, and deployment for fraud prevention, cyber defence, threat detection, and data protection.
Work on transparency measures such as watermarking so Canadians can identify AI interactions and content.
Create a certification program to help Canadians identify trustworthy AI products in the marketplace.
Coordinate with frontier AI companies and international partners to protect Canadians and critical systems.
Numeric targets are shown with baselines only when a public metric exists.
70promises trackedOutcome targets plus every explicit key-action commitment from the full strategy.
36source-backed status rowsRows with an official target, policy stage, funding, launch, or baseline source attached.
34progress evidence gapsRows where the strategy promise exists but delivery evidence is not wired yet.
Evidence atlas
Select any non-zero cell to filter the promise register. The matrix shows evidence status, not delivery proof.
| Pillar | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Protecting Canadians | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||
| Empowering Canadians | 0 | 0 | 19 | ||||
| Adoption | 0 | 12 | |||||
| Sovereign AI | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||
| Canadian champions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||
| Partnerships | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Current public measurements
These are baseline or adjacent public measurements. They help ground the strategy, but only a current value that matches a stated target is treated as progress evidence.
Statistics Canada's narrow current-use measure covers businesses using AI to produce goods or deliver services in the previous 12 months, up from 12.2% in Q2 2025.
Planning to use AI over the next 12 months is a demand signal. It is not adoption already achieved and is not added to the current-use rate.
This is an experimental exposure estimate for job transformation risk and complementarity. It does not predict actual job losses or gains.
This static count comes from the public Open Government CSV. It shows disclosure activity, not a complete inventory or quality rating.
A federal public-service lighthouse project gives a measurable adoption example, but it is adjacent context rather than proof that the new national strategy has delivered.
1 of 5 public measurements currently line up with an official strategy target. The rest are context signals, not scorecard points.
Targets and measurable signals
A bar appears only when a public latest value can be compared with a stated target. Pending rails mean the tracker needs delivery evidence before it can show progress.
Share of Canadian businesses using AI to produce goods or deliver services
32% of stated target value using the latest public value.
The tracker shows latest divided by target, not a claim that the strategy is 32% delivered. Statistics Canada's Q2 2026 release is the latest official current-use measure.
New jobs through AI adoption
Measurement pending
This is an official outcome target. No public measurement series is wired yet for jobs attributable to AI adoption.
Youth work opportunities, student reach, and educator training
Delivery evidence pending
The strategy gives public reach targets, but this tracker needs delivery counts before showing progress.
Sovereign compute capacity and access
Delivery evidence pending
Funding and target language are public. Delivery needs procurement, capacity, access, pricing, and usage evidence.
GDP gains from labour productivity and AI commercialization/application
Attribution method pending
This is an economic-impact ambition, not a directly observed public metric. It should be tracked through productivity and adoption evidence over time.
Trusted partnerships and alliance milestones
Milestone evidence pending
The tracker treats alliances as milestones until public joint work, procurement, standards, or investment outputs can be verified.
Evidence gaps
Ranked by unresolved rows, not editorial severity.
Evidence that would close rows:
Evidence that would close rows:
Evidence that would close rows:
Promise register
Filter the register by pillar, evidence model, status, or target year. The table keeps official promises separate from public progress evidence.
Accountability pipeline
These lanes translate the detailed status matrix into a reader-facing accountability flow. They show what kind of evidence is visible, not whether the strategy has succeeded.
These cards update with the same filter state as the matrix and register.
Launch high-impact AI missions, starting with $200 million toward better health outcomes.
Use tax measures to catalyze private AI investment and make innovation more affordable.
Have Finance work with experts on ways to encourage successful tech gains to be reinvested into new Canadian AI startups.
Use Buy Canadian and federal demand to give domestic scale-ups revenue and validation for export.
Evidence gap shortcut
0 matching commitments need a separate public progress source in this view.
When do the promises come due? Only 6 of 70 commitments carry a stated target year.
| Evidence note | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Launch AI Missions ProgramLaunch high-impact AI missions, starting with $200 million toward better health outcomes.Program milestone | Adoption | Announcedofficial program | $200M first health missionLatest: $200M announced in strategy | Announcement and amount are public; delivery requires mission design, awards, milestones, and results.ISED overviewISED full strategy |
Use SR&ED and Productivity Super-DeductionUse tax measures to catalyze private AI investment and make innovation more affordable.Policy milestone | Adoption | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | Tax support for AI investment | Tax-policy impact should be measured through eligibility rules, take-up, and investment response.ISED full strategy |
Explore reinvestment mechanisms by Budget 2026Have Finance work with experts on ways to encourage successful tech gains to be reinvested into new Canadian AI startups.Policy milestone | Canadian champions | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | Budget 2026 mechanisms exploredTarget year: 2026 | This is a time-bound policy-development commitment.ISED full strategy |
Use federal government as strategic anchor customerUse Buy Canadian and federal demand to give domestic scale-ups revenue and validation for export.Policy milestone | Canadian champions | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | Anchor-customer procurement | Procurement reform should be tracked through contract awards, requirements, and domestic vendor outcomes.ISED full strategy |
Assess innovation programs from research to marketReview innovation supports so the path from research to market is clearer and better aligned with AI entrepreneurs.Policy milestone | Canadian champions | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | Aligned innovation-program continuum | Assessment requires published findings and program changes.ISED full strategy |
Promote accessible and equitable AI standardPromote Canada's AI equity-based national standard on accessible AI.Policy milestone | Empowering Canadians | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | Accessible AI standard adoption | Promotion is not adoption; track standard uptake, procurement references, and compliance.ISED full strategy |
Apply Gender-Based Analysis Plus across AI policyApply GBA Plus to policy design, skills development, innovation, and governance.Policy milestone | Empowering Canadians | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | GBA Plus applied across AI policy | Needs public evidence of assessment requirements and how they influence program design.ISED full strategy |
Build a strategic multilateral allianceUse trusted partnerships to move Canada from technology reliance toward resilience and sovereign autonomy.Program milestone | Partnerships | Announcedofficial program | Strategic multilateral alliance | Alliance commitments need formal outputs before they can be read as delivery.ISED overviewISED full strategy |
Expand the Sovereign Technology AllianceExpand the alliance to enable interoperable AI capabilities, procurement opportunities, research, talent, and investment.Program milestone | Partnerships | Announcedofficial program | Expanded Sovereign Technology AllianceLatest: Alliance expansion commitment | Alliance expansion needs membership, work programs, and outputs.ISED full strategy |
Advance Europe AI partnershipsUse partnerships with Germany, the UK, France, the EU, Finland, and Norway across AI, safety, standards, defence, and related capabilities.Program milestone | Partnerships | Announcedofficial program | European AI partnership outputs | Regional partnership bullets are commitments to work together; outputs must be tracked separately.ISED full strategy |
Advance Indo-Pacific AI partnershipsDevelop AI, quantum, trade mission, safety, semiconductor, robotics, industrial AI, and quantum partnerships with Australia, India, and Japan.Program milestone | Partnerships | Announcedofficial program | Indo-Pacific technology partnership outputs | Partnerships need concrete work plans, funding, standards, and company outcomes.ISED full strategy |
Advance Middle East AI partnershipsDevelop AI, data infrastructure, emerging technology, and market partnerships with the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.Program milestone | Partnerships | Announcedofficial program | Middle East technology partnership outputs | Track investment, governance, infrastructure, company access, and standards implications.ISED full strategy |
Protect Canadians from AI risks and online harmsProtect Canadians, especially children, through privacy safeguards, online-harm protections, and more transparent AI.Policy milestone | Protecting Canadians | Policy developmentofficial target | Privacy, safety, and transparency protections | Outcome target; delivery needs laws, regulations, standards, enforcement, and public reporting.ISED overviewISED full strategy |
Modernize consumer privacy legislationUpdate privacy law to strengthen privacy rights, protect children, and give people more control over personal data.Policy milestone | Protecting Canadians | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | Modernized consumer privacy law | Track legislation and implementation, not strategy language alone.ISED full strategy |
Introduce online safety lawsCreate online safety laws to protect Canadians, children, citizens, and customers in digital spaces.Policy milestone | Protecting Canadians | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | Online safety law | Law-making progress is a milestone path, not a delivery-progress target.ISED full strategy |
Protect elections from AI-enabled misinformationProtect democratic institutions from AI-enabled misinformation and foreign interference.Policy milestone | Protecting Canadians | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | Election and democracy safeguards | Delivery needs concrete safeguards, election administration guidance, and transparency measures.ISED full strategy |
Continue Privacy Act reviewReview the Privacy Act for government use of personal information in the digital age.Policy milestone | Protecting Canadians | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | Privacy Act review progress | The review commitment should be tracked through review outputs and legislative follow-through.ISED full strategy |
Expand sovereign compute and cloud infrastructureUse government and industrial workloads to crowd in private capital for Canadian-controlled AI data centres.Program milestone | Sovereign AI | Announcedofficial program | At least 100 MW sites; proposed 850 MW by 2030 and up to 2.3 GW scaleLatest: Partnerships being finalized in strategyTarget year: 2030 | Proposed capacity is not delivered capacity. Track signed deals, permits, power, and operating capacity.ISED full strategy |
Expand Global Talent Stream for AI workersAccelerate entry and onboarding of highly skilled AI workers and align permanent-residency retention measures.Policy milestone | Sovereign AI | Policy developmentofficial strategy only | Expanded AI talent pathway | Track immigration policy details, processing outcomes, and retention, not only intent.ISED full strategy |
Launch high-impact AI missions, starting with $200 million toward better health outcomes.
Use tax measures to catalyze private AI investment and make innovation more affordable.
Have Finance work with experts on ways to encourage successful tech gains to be reinvested into new Canadian AI startups.
Use Buy Canadian and federal demand to give domestic scale-ups revenue and validation for export.
Review innovation supports so the path from research to market is clearer and better aligned with AI entrepreneurs.
Promote Canada's AI equity-based national standard on accessible AI.
Apply GBA Plus to policy design, skills development, innovation, and governance.
Use trusted partnerships to move Canada from technology reliance toward resilience and sovereign autonomy.
Expand the alliance to enable interoperable AI capabilities, procurement opportunities, research, talent, and investment.
Use partnerships with Germany, the UK, France, the EU, Finland, and Norway across AI, safety, standards, defence, and related capabilities.
Develop AI, quantum, trade mission, safety, semiconductor, robotics, industrial AI, and quantum partnerships with Australia, India, and Japan.
Develop AI, data infrastructure, emerging technology, and market partnerships with the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
Protect Canadians, especially children, through privacy safeguards, online-harm protections, and more transparent AI.
Update privacy law to strengthen privacy rights, protect children, and give people more control over personal data.
Create online safety laws to protect Canadians, children, citizens, and customers in digital spaces.
Protect democratic institutions from AI-enabled misinformation and foreign interference.
Review the Privacy Act for government use of personal information in the digital age.
Use government and industrial workloads to crowd in private capital for Canadian-controlled AI data centres.
Accelerate entry and onboarding of highly skilled AI workers and align permanent-residency retention measures.
All matching commitments are visible.
Source notes
Official strategy pages establish what was promised. They do not prove money was spent well, programs reached people, or outcomes changed.
Overview of Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · June 4, 2026
High-level public outcomes, six-pillar framing, and plain-language strategy context.
A strategy overview is not delivery evidence. It states intent and headline targets.
Open sourceCanada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada · June 5, 2026
The controlling source for outcome targets and explicit key-action commitments.
Official commitments are not independent proof that programs have launched, reached users, or delivered outcomes.
Open sourceBusinesses using AI to produce goods or deliver services
Statistics Canada · June 16, 2025
Narrow, official baseline for businesses using AI in goods or services.
Does not capture informal employee use, pilots, or broader generative-AI experimentation.
Open sourceCanadian Survey on Business Conditions, second quarter 2026
Statistics Canada · May 27, 2026
Current business AI-use measure and comparison against Q2 2025 and Q2 2024.
The Canadian Survey on Business Conditions is scheduled for its final collection cycle in summer 2026, so the tracker may need a successor series.
Open sourceBusinesses planning to use AI
Statistics Canada · August 27, 2025
Businesses planning to adopt AI and reported reasons for non-adoption.
Plans are not delivered adoption and should not be added to the current-use rate.
Open sourceExposure to artificial intelligence in Canadian jobs: Experimental estimates
Statistics Canada · September 25, 2024
Context for workforce adaptation, training, and job-transformation commitments.
Experimental estimates use 2021 census and O*NET-based exposure methods; they do not show actual job losses or gains from AI.
Open sourceAI Strategy for the Federal Public Service 2025-2027
Government of Canada · March 2025
Federal public-sector AI governance, delivery, and responsible-use context.
Does not measure whole-of-government AI adoption or delivery outcomes.
Open sourceAI Strategy for the Federal Public Service 2025-2027: Year in Review
Government of Canada · May 25, 2026
Public-service AI adoption, training, transparency, and lighthouse-project context.
Federal public-service progress is not the same as delivery of Canada's whole-of-economy AI for All strategy.
Open sourceAlgorithmic Impact Assessment and federal AI register
Government of Canada · Ongoing
Public disclosure of some federal automated decision systems and assessment artifacts.
Registry coverage is not a complete inventory of all government AI use.
Open sourceGovernment of Canada AI Register (Minimum Viable Product)
Open Government Portal · April 28, 2026
A public transparency count for registered federal AI systems.
The MVP register is not a complete inventory of every federal AI use and should not be used as a whole-government adoption rate.
Open sourcePan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy
CIFAR · Ongoing
Research-network and AI-chair context that sits behind the strategy's talent commitments.
Useful program context, but not a full delivery tracker for the new strategy.
Open sourceReading rule: an official commitment row means the promise exists in the public strategy. A progress row needs a separate public source such as legislation, funding awards, procurement notices, program reports, Statistics Canada releases, registry entries, or partnership outputs.