[AI influence. on the CLARiiON serverTorontomessage] June 4, 2026, Prime Minister of Canadamark·Mark CarneyCanada's newly revised National Artificial Intelligence Security and Development Strategy was officially announced to the outside world in Hamilton, Ontario. The Canadian government plans to adopt a series of extremely aggressive fiscal incentives and clean energy rationing policies to ensure that Canada becomes the world's second-largest gathering of high-end AI reasoning and AI Factories in North America, after the United States.
Hamilton's transformation: from "Rust Belt Heavy Industry" to "Smart Great Wall"
As a benchmark for this strategy, Hamilton City CouncilOn the morning of June 4, a land division and planning change application for Steelport, the former site of the Stelco Steel Plant, was approved with high votes. This former site, which has witnessed the glory of Canada's century-old steel industry, will be fully transformed into a ultra-large AI data center cluster and an "AI infrastructure industrial park."
Carneyin the subsequentDuring the inspection of the AI Institute, it was emphasized: "AI has passed through the pure technical experimental stage and has fully entered the era of large-scale industrial production. Canada has abundant clean hydropower resources and the advantages of a cold climate. This is the best natural soil for building the next generation of 'AI factory'."
Follow the US executive order and strengthen data sovereignty coordination
Analysts have noted that Canada chose to make a high-profile announcement at this time.The AI strategy is clearly an immediate geopolitical response to the AI executive order issued by the United States this week. The potentially exclusive clause in the U.S. New Deal that "non-American developers submitting model reviews to U.S. intelligence agencies may trigger data sovereignty conflicts" has brought huge policy pressure on traditional allies such as Canada.
Canada's Minister of Science, Technology and Industry admitted at the Hamilton Summit that Canada's new strategy is not only aimed at improving local developmentThe strength of AI research and development, and more importantly, under the framework of the Five Eyes Alliance, the establishment of a computing defense system that is highly mutually recognized with the United States and can also protect Canada's own "Data Sovereignty." By directly converting excess industrial idle land and energy into "sovereign computing power," Canada is trying to become an indispensable core defense circle of AI infrastructure in North America in the global geo-AI jigsaw puzzle.