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Updated 25 Oct 2026

Canada’s 40 Per Cent AI Refusal Is an Answer About Products, Not Offices

Canada's 40.0 per cent "AI is not relevant" answer is a statement about what a business sells, not how it runs — and the country has no survey that asks the second question. The published figures do not even agree with each other: 40.0 per cent from Statistics Canada, 63.0 per cent implied by the federal strategy's own 78 per cent. Inside that gap sits a market worth USD 3.16 billion in 2026 and USD 8.60 billion by 2033.

Information Technology (IT) & Software Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Updated 18 Oct 2026

The AI Act Moved Sixteen Months. The Capex Didn’t.

High-risk AI obligations under the EU AI Act now start in December 2027, not August 2026 — a sixteen-month slide that has not been matched by the capex cycle, which is running at two to two and a half times the revenue of the market it serves.

Information Technology (IT) & Software Artificial Intelligence (AI)