Canada has already emerged as one of the global leaders in AI, because of its millions of dollars in investment, and also the country’s openness and diversity. The Government of Canada’s US$125 million Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, working in partnership with three newly established AI institutes – the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) in Edmonton, Mila in Montreal and the Vector Institute in Toronto, will focus on enhancing Canada’s international profile in AI research and training and have a number of benefits. These include increasing productivity in academic AI research, enhancing the capacity of Canadian universities to generate world-class research and innovation, increasing collaboration between AI research clusters and strengthening relationships with the receivers of innovation, attracting and retaining outstanding AI talent in Canadian universities and industry, and translating AI research discoveries in the private and public sectors into socioeconomic benefits for Canada.