Canada
OECDCOUNCIL OF EUROPE
4%
1/28
AI Gap Index
0/10
Schools
0/8
Workforce
1/6
Governance
0/4
Access
Schools 0/10
D1 AI literacy curriculum exists in schools 0 National AI Literacy Strategy under development; consultation concluded October 2025, outcome not yet published
D2 Curriculum is binding law or mandate 0
D3 Ethics component included in curriculum 0
D4 Teacher training mandated and funded before rollout 0
D5 Dedicated funding attached to the requirement 0
Workforce 0/8
D6 Employers legally required to train all employees 0
D7 Training must cover ethics and critical evaluation 0
D8 Pre-redundancy training obligation exists 0
D9 Workers have rights when AI used in employment decisions 0
Civil Service & Governance 1/6
D10 Civil servants working with AI must receive training 1 Treasury Board Secretariat's Directive on Automated Decision-Making gives the federal government an explicit AI governance mandate for public-sector AI use; advisory for private sector
D11 Minimum training standard is defined 0
D12 Enforcement mechanism exists with named authority 0
Public Access 0/4
D13 Free or publicly funded AI literacy resources available 0 No national public AI literacy programme; strategy framework pending
D15 Digital infrastructure support for schools and institutions 0
Source research
Index history
March 17, 2026 1/28 Governance rescore: dim10=1 (Treasury Board Directive on Automated Decision-Making)
March 17, 2026 0/28 Initial scoring from research archive. Canada ranks 44th of 47 countries surveyed on AI literacy.