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@citizenlab.ca>
To: pm@pm.gc.ca, mark.carney@parl.gc.ca, melanie.joly@ised-isde.gc.ca, ministeraidi-ministreiain@ised-isde.gc.ca, ised-isde@ised-isde.gc.ca
CC: anita.anand@international.gc.ca, hon.marc.miller@pch.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, Samir.Chhabra@ised-isde.gc.ca, ridr@sen.parl.gc.ca, trcm@sen.parl.gc.ca, ~Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics/Accès à l'information, protection des renseignements personnels et éthique <ETHI@parl.gc.ca>, INDU@parl.gc.ca, CHPC@parl.gc.ca, ai-ia@tbs-sct.gc.ca, info@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 submitted to the National AI Strategy Consultation in October 2025, we are forwarding to you, in multiple formats, a package containing the submissions received by the People's Consultation on AI (PCAI). The PCAI was originally announced in the open letter, was launched in January 2026, and ran 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 and optional consultation questions tailored to varying levels 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 (now at 275 signatories). We hope that these submissions—several resulting from locally facilitated community micro-consultations—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.


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) 



 PCAI_English Submissions_March 2026.zip


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Cynthia Khoo
Senior Fellow | Citizen Lab 

Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
University of Toronto
315 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 0A7