Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney held his first budget meeting, which proposed providing more than $1 billion over the next five years to build up the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing ecosystems while embedding AI technology into more of the federal government operations.

During the 2025 budget, the federal government proposed providing $925.6 million over the next five years to support a large-scale “sovereign” public AI infracture, reports CBC News . $800 million of the investment will come from funds that were set aside by the 2024 budget, which announced a total of $2 billion to boost Canada’s AI compute capacity and to help build a public supercomputer infrastructure. The budget is reallocating the money towards boosting AI compute availability and supp

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