I am encouraged by Canada’s new AI for All strategy. It expands the conversation beyond research and talent to commercialization, IP retention, sovereignty, and supporting Canadian champions. To me, it reflects a broader and welcome shift from simply creating AI innovation to capturing more of the value created by that innovation.

Canada has scored a lot of goals in AI. We helped pioneer the field, trained world-class researchers, and built respected institutions. With AI for All, we should be able to score more.

But the question I keep coming back to is: what does winning look like?

Capital, talent, infrastructure, and commercialization are all important. They help us score goals. But scoring goals is not the objective. The objective is to win the championship.

My latest post explores why ownership may be the missing piece in Canada’s AI strategy — and why AI for All and ownership are more connected than they appear.

Here is the link to the post.