Prime Minister Mark Carney recently launched AI for All — an ambitious five-year national strategy. It aims for $200 billion in economic growth, 250,000 new jobs and a surge in AI adoption across Canada, from 12 per cent to 60 per cent by 2034.
As someone who works daily at the intersection of medicine, health systems and equity — I’m a hospitalist physician and the inaugural senior associate dean for health equity and systems transformation at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary — I read the strategy with genuine enthusiasm and an urgent concern: has equitable implementation even been considered?
