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Technology and the digital economy platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal
  • Invest $2.5B in building digital infrastructure

    "Invest in digital infrastructure for the economy of tomorrow. We will catalyze the construction and development of AI infrastructure including data storage facilities, computing capacity, high speed, safe and reliable communication networks, and digital supply chain solutions to improve efficiency and reduce costs for Canadians. This will include improving rural broadband and reliable cell service that connects communities." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

  • Provide federal funding to build new data centres

    "Building the next generation of data centres quickly and efficiently by leveraging federal funding and partnering with the private sector to secure Canada’s technological advantage." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Track economic impacts of AI in real time

    "Measuring growth by tracking the economic impacts of AI in real-time – not just occasionally – so we can proactively help Canadians seize new opportunities, boost productivity, and ensure no one is left behind." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Invest in nation-building energy infrastructure and removing regulations to make it easier to build data centres

    "Investing in nation-building energy infrastructure and cutting red tape to make Canada the best place in the world to build data centres. Canada must have the capacity to deploy the AI of the future and ensure we have technological sovereignty." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Provide a new AI deployment tax credit for small and medium-sized businesses

    "Boosting adoption with a new AI deployment tax credit for small and medium-sized businesses that incentivizes businesses to leverage AI to boost their bottom lines, create jobs, and support existing employees. Companies would leverage a 20% credit on qualifying AI adoption projects, as long as they can demonstrate that they are increasing jobs." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

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  • Create a dedicated Office of Digital Transformation to identify, implement, and scale technology solutions in government

    "Establishing a dedicated Office of Digital Transformation at the centre of government to proactively identify, implement, and scale technology solutions and eliminate duplicative and redundant red tape. This will enhance public service delivery for all Canadians and reduce barriers for businesses to operate in Canada, which will grow our economy. This is about fundamentally transforming how Canadians interact with their government, ensuring timely, accessible, and high-quality services that meet Canadians’ needs.

    Enabling the Office of Digital Transformation to centralize innovative procurement and take a whole-of-government approach to service delivery improvement. This could mean using AI to address government service backlogs and improve service delivery times, so that Canadians get better services, faster."

    — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Expand programmes at Canada's AI institutes

    "Catalyze commercialization by expanding successful programs at Canada’s AI institutes (Mila, Vector, Amii) so that we can connect more Canadian researchers and startups with businesses across the country, which will supercharge adoption of Canadian innovation in businesses, create jobs, and strengthen our AI ecosystem." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

We don't have any Conservative policies on Technology and the digital economy.

Bloc
  • Réformer la Loi sur la protection de la vie privée à l’ère des nouvelles technologies
  • Financer un effort de recrutement des américains dans des domaines de l’intelligence artificielle, le biomédical et les technologies propres
  • Étudier ce qui se fait à l’étranger dans les sciences quantiques

    Le Bloc proposera d’étudier ce qui se fait à l’étranger dans les sciences quantiques, notamment au Royaume-Uni et aux Pays-Bas, en matière de réglementation, d’encadrement des nouvelles technologies et d’occasions à saisir pour le développement de notre expertise

  • Insister pour la reconnaissance de l’expertise de pointe du Québec en matière de recherche quantique

    Le Bloc insistera pour la reconnaissance de l’expertise de pointe du Québec en matière de recherche quantique, notamment en soutenant la mise en place d’une stratégie quantique canadienne qui reconnaisse le poids du Québec dans la prochaine révolution technologique

  • Relancer le débat sur l’encadrement de l’intelligence artificielle, en s’assurant que ce soit le Québec qui ait compétence en cette matière et en s’inspirant des meilleures pratiques mondiales
We don't have any NDP policies on Technology and the digital economy.

Green
  • Ban social media platforms from targeting or providing services to minors

    "Ban social media platforms from targeting or providing services to minors, following Australia’s lead, and invest significantly in youth- focused mental health support, education, and digital literacy initiatives to counteract online risks such as addiction, radicalization, and mental health issues." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Require online platforms to enforce clear content moderation standards, be transparent about how their algorithms rank and recommend content, and submit to regular independent audits

    "Require online platforms to enforce clear content moderation standards, ensure transparency in how their algorithms rank and recommend content, and submit to regular independent audits as a condition of operating in Canada." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Mandate stronger protections for young people on social media platforms

    "Mandate stronger protections for young people on social media platforms, preventing harassment, exploitation, and design practices that encourage addiction to social media." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Enforce strict digital privacy laws regarding youth data

    "Enforce strict digital privacy laws to prevent social media companies from collecting, storing, or exploiting youth data for profit." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Hold social media platforms accountable for harmful content

    "Hold social media platforms accountable for harmful content, ending the protection from liability that platforms currently enjoy, thereby incentivizing responsible moderation and reducing misinformation and harmful algorithmic content." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

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  • Support tech transfer partnerships between businesses and universities, while ensuring publicly-funded research remains accessible
  • Create a comprehensive national framework for AI, setting standards for ethical use, transparency, accountability, environmental impacts, and robust data privacy protections
  • Legislatively redefine social media companies and digital platforms as publishers, making them accountable for content they publish

    "Legislatively redefine social media companies and digital platforms as “publishers,” making them accountable under common law for content they publish, allowing legal recourse for libel, slander, misinformation, and interference in elections." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Introduce a tax on US tech monopolies operating in Canada and reinvest the revenue into Canadian-owned tech, broadband expansion, and independent journalism

    "Introduce a tax on U.S. tech monopolies operating in Canada, ensuring companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Tesla, and Starlink pay their fair share. This will include a Digital Services Tax (DST) on digital advertising, app store fees, streaming services, and consumer data monetization, as well as a corporate tax surcharge on tech giants. Revenue from these taxes will be reinvested in Canadian-owned technology, broadband expansion, and independent journalism, reducing reliance on U.S. corporate giants while strengthening Canada’s digital sovereignty." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Enshrine digital rights in Canadian law, including protections against online profiling, mass surveillance, and algorithmic discrimination

    "Enshrine digital rights in Canadian law, including protections against online profiling, mass surveillance, and algorithmic discrimination, ensuring that Canadians’ rights are upheld in digital spaces as they are offline." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

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