UNLOCK 35.1 “AI for All” of Carney’s Friends

Update episode on the Carney government's national AI strategy, "AI for All," released June 4, 2026. The document's most-used word is "sovereignty" — appearing 51 times — while "emissions," "climate," "consent," "Palantir," and "Amazon" appear nada.

I trace the political etymology of "sovereignty" from First Nations liberation discourse through working-class populism to its current deployment by the Davos class as branding for capital accumulation. I also examine AI Minister Evan Solomon's performance on CBC Front Burner, where he dodged nine accountability questions in thirty minutes using the word "trust" as a revolving door.

Finally, a look at Dr. Jason Edward Lewis's Indigenous AI epistemology framework and the concept of "data colonization." Because the familiar crime now reanimated against Indigenous communities through AI infrastructure is a template for what is coming for us all.

Sources

Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All

CBC Front Burner: Minister Defends Canada's New AI Strategy — Transcript

DeSmog: Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company

Project Ploughshares: Setting the Record Straight on Canada's Arms Exports to Israel

CJPME: Canada's Record-Breaking 2023 Military Exports to Israel

APTN News: What's Behind Canada's Sovereign AI Plan?

Intercontinental Cry: Ancestral Intelligence — How Indigenous Knowledge Informs AI and Data Ethics

Policy Options: AI Threatens Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Digital Self-Determination

Assembly of First Nations: Brief to Parliamentary Committee on Bill C-27

Canada's National Observer: Three Quarters of Data Centre Sites Planned in Alberta Are in High Water Stress Areas

The Intercept: Philly Cops Admit They're Tracking First Amendment Activity Critical of AI

Abacus Data: Canadians Split on AI Data Centres

Abundant Intelligences Project — Dr. Jason Edward Lewis, Concordia University

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