Canadian organizations with a published AI policy
Every record links to the public source document. Inclusion does not mean a policy is good, and a missing record does not prove an organization lacks governance.
Registry snapshot
- Artifacts
- 387
- Formal policies
- 203
- Operational guidance
- 184
Browse by sector
See what schools, libraries, newsrooms, non-profits and regulators actually publish — each link opens the registry, filtered.
- Education209
- Libraries & culture37
- Media & communications28
- Nonprofits & associations21
- Health & professional regulation21
- Business & professional services16
- Public agencies & research14
- Other13
- Infrastructure, transport & energy11
- Public safety & justice9
- Finance & insurance8
Browse by region
“National” means organizations whose mandate spans the whole country — it is not the sum of the provinces. A province means the organization is based and operating there.
- Ontario127
- National66
- British Columbia61
- Alberta55
- Quebec42
- Nova Scotia11
- Manitoba10
- Saskatchewan7
- New Brunswick3
- Atlantic Canada2
- Northwest Territories1
- Newfoundland and Labrador1
- Prince Edward Island1
See also: provincial and territorial policies · municipal registry · registry overview
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Federal regional economic-development and community agency · Atlantic Canada
A federal regional economic-development and community agency delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Atlantic Canada.
Description under review — read the source document.
Canada Revenue Agency
Federal tax and benefits administration agency · National
A federal tax and benefits administration agency delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
Description under review — read the source document.
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
Independent federal human-rights tribunal · National
An independent federal human-rights tribunal delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
The direction bars Tribunal members from using AI to write decisions or analyze evidence and requires participants to verify AI-assisted content and legal sources while retaining full accuracy accountability.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Federal health-research funding agency · National
A federal health-research funding agency delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
CIHR's AI statement prohibits meeting participants from using AI transcription, recording or summarization tools unless an authorized exception is granted, protecting confidential discussion and information security.
Canadian International Trade Tribunal
Independent federal trade tribunal · National
An independent federal trade tribunal delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
The practice notice requires participants to verify AI-assisted filings and primary legal sources, protect confidential information, assess bias, disclose responsibly and retain accountability, while reserving decisions to humans.
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Federal environment and climate public agency · National
A federal environment and climate public agency delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
ECCC's conduct code requires employees using AI to complete current training, protect personal, sensitive and intellectual property information, assess stakeholder impacts, and scrutinize accuracy and relevance.
Federal Court
Independent federal court · National
An independent federal court delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
The Federal Court's AI principles bar automated judgments without public consultation, require verified sources and human review, protect court data, prevent discrimination, and authorize external audits.
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Federal regional economic-development and community agency · Ontario
A federal regional economic-development and community agency delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services in Ontario.
FedDev Ontario's conduct code requires employees using generative AI to assess risks, keep protected, classified and personal information out of public tools, follow decision rules, and obtain approval for AI deployments.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Federal fisheries, oceans, coastal-community, and maritime public agency · National
A federal fisheries, oceans, coastal-community, and maritime public agency delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
Description under review — read the source document.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Federal research-funding council · National
A federal research-funding council delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
NSERC makes applicants accountable for AI-assisted grant content, requires disclosure where applicable, and prohibits reviewers from using generative AI with confidential proposal material.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Federal research-funding council · National
A federal research-funding council delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
SSHRC prohibits merit reviewers from using public generative AI on confidential applications, keeps applicants accountable for submitted content, and bars reviewers from treating suspected AI use as evidence.
Social Security Tribunal of Canada
Independent federal administrative tribunal · National
An independent federal administrative tribunal delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
The Social Security Tribunal defines permitted and prohibited AI uses, preserves human adjudication, evaluates new uses before adoption, protects case information, and trains personnel.
Statistics Canada
Federal statistics and data agency · National
A federal statistics and data agency delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
Employees must use approved generative AI tools, obtain approval before production deployment, protect sensitive data, document adoption, validate every assisted output before publication, and complete ongoing training.
Tribunals Ontario
Cluster of independent provincial administrative tribunals · Ontario
A cluster of independent provincial administrative tribunals delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services in Ontario.
Tribunals Ontario must document AI threats, impacts and treatments across the lifecycle, maintain and publish use-case inventories, report risks quarterly.
Avizo Experts-Conseils
Environmental and municipal engineering consultancy · Quebec
An environmental and municipal engineering consultancy delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services in Quebec.
The employee-and-partner AI policy requires approved tools, protects personal and confidential data, preserves professional judgment, mandates human validation and disclosure, and safeguards security and intellectual property.
Canada Council for the Arts
National public arts funder and federal Crown corporation · National
A national public arts funder and federal Crown corporation supporting arts, culture, heritage, creative work, or community programming across Canada.
The Council's AI guidance limits internal and assessor use to licensed tools and approved tasks, protects application data, requires human judgment and verification, and preserves confidentiality and fairness.
Canadian Heritage
Federal culture, heritage, sport, and official-languages department · National
A federal culture, heritage, sport, and official-languages department supporting arts, culture, heritage, creative work, or community programming across Canada.
The code's AI section requires Canadian Heritage employees to follow automated-decision rules, guard privacy and fairness, avoid bias, seek current guidance and use informed human judgment.
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
National museum and federal Crown corporation · National
A national museum and federal Crown corporation supporting arts, culture, heritage, creative work, or community programming across Canada.
Description under review — read the source document.
Condominium Authority of Ontario
Nonprofit designated administrative authority and online tribunal · Ontario
A nonprofit designated administrative authority and online tribunal providing programs, supports, resources, or community services in Ontario.
The tribunal's AI practice direction says members will not use AI to analyze evidence or draft decisions and asks parties to disclose tools, protect confidential data, and verify all outputs and citations.
Department of Finance Canada
Federal public finance and policy department · National
A federal public finance and policy department supporting arts, culture, heritage, creative work, or community programming across Canada.
Finance Canada's conduct code requires employees using AI to protect sensitive information, assess accuracy and relevance, avoid bias and harm, explain their use, and retain accountable human oversight.
Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces
Federal defence organization · National
A federal defence organization supporting arts, culture, heritage, creative work, or community programming across Canada.
Description under review — read the source document.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Federal immigration and newcomer-services department · National
A federal immigration and newcomer-services department supporting arts, culture, heritage, creative work, or community programming across Canada.
IRCC's AI Charter keeps humans responsible for decisions, requires transparency, explainability and bias testing, prohibits protected or personal data in public tools, and mandates privacy review and continuous monitoring.
London Police Service
Municipal police service and public-safety organization · Ontario
A municipal police service and public-safety organization delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services in Ontario.
The police service's AI policy classifies risk, prohibits extreme-risk uses, requires approval for higher-risk systems, keeps humans in consequential decisions, and mandates a public inventory and annual reporting.
Public Services and Procurement Canada
Federal procurement and public-services department · National
A federal procurement and public-services department supporting arts, culture, heritage, creative work, or community programming across Canada.
Public Services and Procurement Canada employees may use only secure, privacy-compliant AI, may not use public generative AI for work, must label AI content, and cannot rely on it alone for decisions.
Thunder Bay Police Service
Municipal police service and public-safety organization · Ontario
A municipal police service and public-safety organization delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services in Ontario.
Police AI requires Board approval, trained users and pre-procurement risk assessment; serious-risk systems are barred, human oversight and privacy controls apply, and public registries, audits and reporting support accountability.
Toronto Police Service
Municipal police service and public-safety organization · Ontario
A municipal police service and public-safety organization delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services in Ontario.
Police AI is classified by risk, assessed before funding or deployment and subject to Board approval, mitigation, monitoring and public reporting; extreme-risk uses are terminated and higher-risk systems undergo continued review.
Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada
Independent federal transportation tribunal · National
An independent federal transportation tribunal providing transportation, mobility, logistics, travel, or related services across Canada.
Tribunal members may use AI only for grammar and style support; AI cannot make adjudicative decisions, and members remain solely responsible for their analysis, findings, reasons, evidence and application of law.
Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal
Independent adjudicative tribunal · Ontario
An independent adjudicative tribunal providing banking, insurance, financial, or related member services in Ontario.
Tribunal AI must pass documented legal, privacy, security, ethics and operational assessment before approval, preserve adjudicative independence and human decision-making, maintain inventories and accountability.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the organizations registry?
- It is a source-linked list of Canadian organizations — schools, libraries, non-profits, health and professional bodies, media outlets, agencies — that have published an AI policy or operational guidance. Every record links to the public source document, which is always the authority. Municipal records live in the separate registry at /municipalities.
- Where do the descriptions come from?
- Each description is written from the public source document and reviewed by a human before it appears here. Descriptions summarise what a document covers and which controls it names. They are never a score, a grade, or an opinion about whether the policy is good. Our approach is documented on /methodology.
- Why do some organizations have no description?
- A small number of records are still being adjudicated — usually because the source was hard to access, the document is an AI strategy rather than a use policy, or the scope was unclear. The organization stays listed with its source link, and the description appears once review is finished.
- What is the difference between a formal policy and operational guidance?
- A formal policy is an approved governing document. Operational guidance is practical direction staff actually follow — newsroom standards, classroom rules, a staff handbook section. Both count as published governance; neither is automatically stronger than the other.
- My organization is not listed. What should I do?
- Submit your policy through the form below. A missing record does not prove an organization lacks governance — it usually means we have not found a public source document yet.
- We do not have an AI policy yet. Where do we start?
- Read a few comparable records here to see what peers actually committed to, then use the Policy Builder in the Policy Studio at /studio to draft your own, and /policy-review to check an existing draft against the same control library.
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