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 Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Crown housing agency · National
A crown housing agency supporting housing, housing programs, research, financing, or related public services across Canada.
Description under review — read the source document.
Canada Post Corporation
National postal and community logistics Crown corporation · National
A national postal and community logistics Crown corporation providing postal delivery, logistics, shipping, and related community services across Canada.
Canada Post reports that its workplace AI policy is enforced through approved-tool controls, mandatory training, output verification, risk assessments, a governance board and policy-enforcement oversight.
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.
Centre for International Governance Innovation
Public-policy research nonprofit · Ontario
A public-policy research nonprofit providing programs, supports, resources, or community services in Ontario.
CIGI's research AI policy requires human guidance and sign-off, disclosure, credible sourcing and fact-checking, confidentiality protection, research integrity and accountability for AI-assisted outputs.
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 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.
Human Rights Legal Support Centre
Independent public legal-services agency · Ontario
An independent public legal-services agency operating in Ontario.
The centre's governing agreement requires AI risk assessments, board and executive accountability, disclosure of material uses, quarterly reporting, and protection of confidential and personal information.
Infrastructure Ontario
Provincial infrastructure and real-estate agency · Ontario
A provincial infrastructure and real-estate agency operating in Ontario.
Infrastructure Ontario's governing agreement requires AI risk assessments, chief executive accountability, disclosure of material uses, quarterly reporting, and protection of confidential and personal information.
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.
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.
Vector Institute
Artificial-intelligence research nonprofit · National
An artificial-intelligence research nonprofit supporting arts, culture, heritage, creative work, or community programming across Canada.
Recruitment staff must disclose and assess AI-assisted hiring tools, protect applicant data, prevent bias and discrimination, maintain meaningful human review, document decisions, provide candidate information and recourse.
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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