Submissions

Below are all of the submissions received by the People’s Consultation of AI, from January 2026, to its closing date of March 23, 2026. The consultation received just over 65 submissions in total, including from micro-consultations independently hosted in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, and online; several joint submissions; and comments from approximately 30 individuals and 20 organizations, representing a range of interests, communities, and areas of expertise across Canada.

While these submissions are open to be used for further research and analysis or related grassroots or civic initiatives, we would ask, as a matter of public spiritedness, ethics, and respect, that you do not feed submissions into any LLM programs, chatbots, or similar software (at the very least, those which are any of commercial, proprietary, public, or cloud-based) without the explicit prior consent of each submission’s respective authors.

We have made a shared Dropbox folder with all submission files available here for ease of downloading. Certain files not listed below due to vetting remain in the folder for transparency, under “Filtered”.

Thank you to all who submitted comments! If you do end up using these submissions or other PCAI resources in future research, grassroots initiatives, or other projects, get in touch—we would love to hear about how you’re using them and what you’re doing!

En français (Consultation populaire sur l’IA)

  1. Emile Cloutier-Brassard
  2. Marjorie Villeneuve
  3. Syndicat de professionnelles et de professionnels du gouvernement du Québec (SPGQ)
  4. Table d’action contre l’appauvrissement de l’Estrie (TACAE)

Micro-Consultations

  1. AI Ethical Futures Lab, Jesi Carson Creative
  2. Douglas College employees (British Columbia)
  3. Open Roboethics Institute
  4. Parents for Al Caution in Educational Spaces Vancouver (PACES) and For Our Kids Vancouver
  5. Students from INF2240: Political Economy of Information Policy, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
  6. Students from INF2240H, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
  7. Students from Speculative Policy Design Course, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (Barb Roth, Nejat Ahmed, Catherine Amougis, Rory Sharp, Lea Bailey)
  8. Students from University of Toronto, Political Economy of Information Policy Class (INF2240) (Kaye Caronongan, Adviti Kondaveeti, Anita Zhao, Zining Li, Zimo Xu)
  9. Students in Master of Information Program, University of Toronto’s iSchool (February 25, 2026)
  10. Students in Master of Information Program, University of Toronto’s iSchool (March 19, 2026)
  11. Tech Workers Coalition Canada (TWCC) & Technologists for Democracy (TfD)
  12. Telecommunities Canada

Individuals

  1. Andrew Clement, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
  2. AP Hatley
  3. Bernadette Rousseau
  4. Bipin Kumar B, CanStudyUS Policy Fellow, The Dais, TMU
  5. Christine Boucher
  6. Cynthia Khoo, Principal Lawyer, Tekhnos Law; Senior Fellow, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
  7. Cynthia McLellan
  8. Deva Temple, Founding Director & Lead Researcher, Alignment Ethics Institute
  9. Diane Moyah
  10. Emillie Parrish
  11. Gary Morton
  12. Jack Durette
  13. Jeff Cliff, BSc (Comp Sci)
  14. Jeff Doctor
  15. Jennifer Rouse Barbeau, M.Ed., OCA Fellow, Professor of Language & Communications, Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology
  16. Jonathan Harper, PhD Candidate, McGill University, Departments of Social Studies of Medicine / History & Classical Studies
  17. Dr. Kristen Thomasen, Associate Professor and Senior Chair in Law, Robotics, and Society, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor
  18. Lawyer in Western Canada
  19. Malorie Hudson, RSW
  20. Meaghan McIntyre
  21. Miranda Woodland
  22. ML
  23. Dr. Natasha Tusikov, Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, York University, and Dr. Blayne Haggart, Professor, Department of Political Science, Brock University
  24. Paul Tulloch
  25. Sadish D.
  26. Shel Kahn
  27. Susan McNamara
  28. Thannia Blanchet
  29. Timothy Ellis
  30. Troy Bordun, Assistant Professor, University of Northern British Columbia

Organizations

  1. 5Rights Foundation (Joint Submission)
  2. AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work (AIPOWW) (Kai-Hsin Hung, Luna Xiaolu Li, Blair Attard-Frost)
  3. Canadian Center for Women’s Empowerment (CCFWE)
  4. Canadian Labour Congress
  5. Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association
  6. CanuckDUCK Research Corporation
  7. Carnegie Learning Centre
  8. Cloudscape Comics Society (Joint Submission)
  9. Democracy Watch
  10. Emily Carr University of Art and Design Faculty Association’s Working Subcommittee on Intergenerational Equity
  11. Ending Sexual Violence Association of Canada (ESVA)
  12. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA)
  13. initio Technology and Innovation Law Clinic
  14. Institute for Judicial Dialogue
  15. International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG)
  16. Internet Society — Ontario Chapter
  17. OpenMedia
  18. PeakPerfly
  19. Transition Salt Spring
  20. Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) (Rosel Kim, Dr. Nasreen Rajani, Professor Jane Bailey)
  21. WomenatthecentrE

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