Global News reports Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada’s new national AI strategy, branded AI for All, which CBC reports commits more than 2.3 billion dollars over five years and targets 250,000 jobs by 2031. A core pillar prioritizes foundational AI literacy: the government will invest 30 million dollars in the CanCode program to fund not-for-profits delivering free digital-skills training, including coding and AI, to students from kindergarten to Grade 12 and their educators, with emphasis on underrepresented groups, and to roughly double K-12 teacher training to more than 3,000 educators. Global News notes the document offers little detail on what AI instruction in kindergarten would look like and that K-12 curricula remain under provincial jurisdiction. It cites a November 2025 MIT study finding AI chatbots can erode critical thinking, and quotes University of Toronto professor Elizabeth Dhuey urging safety- and bias-focused instruction over deploying chatbots in early grades.