# Ontario enacts a framework for regulating public-sector AI use

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2024-11-25
- **Jurisdiction**: Ontario (Canada)
- **Instrument**: Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194), Schedule 1: Enhancing Digital Security and Trust Act, 2024
- **Impact level**: Routine
- **Status after the change**: Adopted

## What changed

Bill 194 received royal assent, enabling regulations on disclosure, accountability frameworks, risk management and prohibited uses of AI by Ontario public-sector entities.

## What it means in practice

Public bodies in Ontario should inventory AI systems ahead of regulations; vendors to government should expect disclosure requirements.

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2024-11-25-ontario-bill-194-royal-assent
- **Official source**: https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-194
- **Source document**: Bill 194
- **Published by**: Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: AI Policy Tracker (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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