11:27 a.m.
Hello advisors. All submissions to the People's Consultation are now
on-line and, as per *e-mail below,* notices with links have been sent to
numerous government departments and agencies whose mandates touch the
topics addressed. Our submission is among 12 identified as
micro-consultations. There is also a group of submissions identified as
coming from organizations as well as another group from individuals. I
took a quick browse through some of the submissions. Many expressed
similiar issues -- governance, regulation, environmental, privacy,
copyright. In the ones I checked, I didn't see any taking the discussion
to a higher level like ownership of digital simulations, developing
skills in dialogue with an AI agent, built in biases, etc. I think we
did a pretty good job on this one and presented some unique
perspectives. Thanks very much to all who participated. I qill get Ian
to upload this to our website.
See e-mail below for more info and links.
Marita
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Subject: Submissions from the People's Consultation on AI
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:01:17 -0400
From: Cynthia Khoo <cynthia(a)citizenlab.ca>
To: pm(a)pm.gc.ca, mark.carney(a)parl.gc.ca, melanie.joly(a)ised-isde.gc.ca,
ministeraidi-ministreiain(a)ised-isde.gc.ca, ised-isde(a)ised-isde.gc.ca
CC: anita.anand(a)international.gc.ca, hon.marc.miller(a)pch.gc.ca,
mcu(a)justice.gc.ca, Samir.Chhabra(a)ised-isde.gc.ca, ridr(a)sen.parl.gc.ca,
trcm(a)sen.parl.gc.ca, ~Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics/Accès à
l'information, protection des renseignements personnels et éthique
<ETHI(a)parl.gc.ca>, INDU(a)parl.gc.ca, CHPC(a)parl.gc.ca,
ai-ia(a)tbs-sct.gc.ca, info(a)pco-bcp.gc.ca
To the *Right Hon Mark Carney*, Prime Minister of Canada; the *Hon
Mélanie Joly*, Minister of Industry; and the *Hon Evan Solomon*,
Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation,
(cc: the *Hon Anita Anand*, Minister of Foreign Affairs; the *Hon Marc
Miller*, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture; the *Hon Sean
Fraser*, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; *Samir
Chhabra*, Director General, Marketplace Framework Policy Branch,
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada; Clerks of the
Senate Standing Committees on Human Rights (*Caroline Woodward, HUMA*)
and Transport and Communications (*Andrea Mugny, TRCM*); Clerks of the
House of Commons Standing Committees on Access to Information, Privacy
and Ethics (*Nancy Vohl, ETHI*), Industry and Technology (*Miriam
Burke, INDU*), and Canadian Heritage (*Jean-François Pagé, CHPC*); the
*Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's Responsible Data and AI team*;
and the *Privy Council Office*)
(bcc: Members of the PCAI Ad Hoc Working Group and Authors of
Submissions to the PCAI)
Following on the joint civil society and human rights open letter
<https://bccla.org/policy-submission/open-letter-to-the-minister-of-artifi...
submitted to the National AI Strategy Consultation
<https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-consultations/next-chapte...
in October 2025, we are forwarding to you, in multiple formats, a
package containing the submissions received by the People's Consultation
on AI <https://www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/> (PCAI). The PCAI was
originally announced in the open letter, was launched in
<https://ccla.org/press-release/civil-society-innitiative-announces-public...
January 2026 <https://iclmg.ca/ai-peoples-consultation-launch/>;, and ran
<https://fipa.bc.ca/fipa-peoples-consultation-on-ai> until March 23,
2026. Please find the submissions linked below, as well as attached in
two .zip files (grouped into English and French).
These submissions provide informed and substantive comments and
recommendations regarding how the Canadian government should approach
artificial intelligence, from human rights and civil liberties experts
and advocates, AI and technology workers and researchers, key civil
society organizations and impacted communities, including historically
marginalized groups, and concerned constituents. Participants were
provided with resources
<https://www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/resources/> and optional
consultation questions
<https://www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/advanced-consultation-guide/>
tailored to varying levels
<https://www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/how-to-participate/> of
familiarity with AI issues, and represent a range of interests, areas of
expertise, and perspectives across Canada.
Critically, the views of these stakeholders were _not_ part of the
"national sprint" held in October 2025, due to lack of capacity and out
of protest for the reasons stated in the open letter
<https://pencanada.ca/news/open-letter-to-the-minister-of-artificial-intel...
at 275 signatories
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Som6U8ksbI7a0rlO3Boj9CioyF_0eIf0/edit...>).
We hope that these submissions—several resulting from locally
<https://luma.com/9b8a404r> facilitated
<https://www.forourkids.ca/ai_consultation> community
<https://openroboethics.org/community-roundtable-contributing-to-canadas-p...
micro-consultations <https://luma.com/peoplesAI>—will be duly considered
and taken into account for any forthcoming or future legislation or
other law- or policy-making processes related to AI technologies.
*Submissions Posted on PCAI Website:*
https://www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/submissions
*Submissions in Shared Folder:
*https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/j5ee0rx3k12ov251prbpy/AHsKZsCUC27ROv7URNiLjhk?rlkey=n1jtdvk8wt34s3crhtdxetily&st=z3a5i47a&dl=0
<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/j5ee0rx3k12ov251prbpy/AHsKZsCUC27ROv7URNiL...
*PCAI Consultation Guides:*
https://www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/how-to-participate/
We would appreciate acknowledgement that these submissions have been
received, if possible, and thank you very much.
Best,
Cynthia Khoo / on behalf of the PCAI Ad Hoc Working Group /(members
listed on website homepage <https://www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/>) /
PCAI_English Submissions_March 2026.zip
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pFo52H_JoelB6dhwf7yZNC7wrrRunnZ-/view?us...
PCAI_French Submissions_March 2026.zip
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZSlEJZwmjTsUvDFWda53Yf5fRS7MKjJd/view?us...
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*Cynthia Khoo*
*Senior Fellow | Citizen Lab*
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