# Ontario (Canada)

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Ontario
- **ISO code**: CA-ON
- **Type**: state
- **Region**: Americas / Northern America

## In brief

Ontario (Canada) has 2 recorded AI policy instruments, 2 of them binding and 1 in force. Public-sector AI framework act (2024) with regulations to follow; job-posting AI disclosure in force from January 2026. Regulators include Ontario Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development.

## Overview

Ontario enacted the Enhancing Digital Security and Trust Act, 2024 (Bill 194), which lets the government regulate public-sector use of AI (disclosure, accountability frameworks, risk management, prohibited uses) and the Working for Workers Four Act, 2024, which from 1 January 2026 requires employers with 25 or more employees to state in publicly advertised job postings whether AI is used to screen, assess or select applicants.

## Regulatory status

Public-sector AI framework act (2024) with regulations to follow; job-posting AI disclosure in force from January 2026.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: Ontario Enhancing Digital Security and Trust Act, 2024 (Bill 194); Ontario Working for Workers Four Act (AI disclosure in job postings). Strategy or guidance: none recorded.

## Regulators

- Ontario Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement — Public-sector AI rules under Bill 194 — https://www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-public-and-business-service-delivery-and-procurement
- Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development — Employment Standards Act, including AI disclosure in job postings — https://www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-labour-immigration-training-skills-development

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.

## Official sources

- Bill 194, Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 — Legislative Assembly of Ontario — https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-194

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (2)

- **Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194), Schedule 1: Enhancing Digital Security and Trust Act, 2024** — Act / statute, Adopted, binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ca-ontario-enhancing-digital-security-and-trust-act-2024
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ca-ontario-enhancing-digital-security-and-trust-act-2024.md
- **Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149): disclosure of artificial intelligence use in publicly advertised job postings** — Act / statute, In force, binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ca-ontario-working-for-workers-four-act-ai-in-job-postings
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ca-ontario-working-for-workers-four-act-ai-in-job-postings.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/ca-ontario
- **Official source**: https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-194
- **Source document**: Bill 194, Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024
- **Published by**: Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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