CFE joins call for Carney government to implement better consultation on AI strategy

The Centre for Free Expression has joined 40 other organizations and more than 120 individual experts, human rights advocates, and community representatives across Canada in an Open Letter expressing our opposition to the federal government’s deeply misguided thirty-day “national sprint” public consultation on Canada’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) strategy.

We, and the other signatories, call on Industry Minister Monique Joly, AI and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Soloman to: (1) Extend the consultation deadline to February 2, 2026; (2) Reconstitute their AI Task Force to ensure a more equitably representative one that is equipped to confront the ongoing threats of AI to people and communities; and (3) Rewrite the deeply biased AI survey into a more legitimate and balanced consultation instrument.

A copy of our Open Letter can be found here.