Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget proposes providing more than $1 billion over the next five years to build up Canada’s artificial intelligence and quantum computing ecosystems while embedding AI technology more deeply in federal government operations.

According to the 2025 budget, tabled Tuesday afternoon by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, the federal government proposes providing $925.6 million over the next five years to support a large-scale “sovereign” public AI infrastructure.

According to the budget, $800 million of the $925.6-million investment will come from funds set aside by the last federal budget, which announced a total of $2 billion to boost domestic AI compute capacity and build public supercomputing infrastructure.