# Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194), Schedule 1: Enhancing Digital Security and Trust Act, 2024

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Ontario (Canada)
- **Instrument type**: Act / statute
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Issuing body**: Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- **Adopted**: 2024-11-25

## In brief

Ontario Enhancing Digital Security and Trust Act, 2024 (Bill 194) is a binding act of Ontario (Canada), issued by Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It was adopted on 25 November 2024. Ontario public-sector entities as prescribed by regulation; not private organisations.

## Summary

The Act allows the Ontario government to make regulations governing the use of AI systems by public-sector entities (ministries, agencies, hospitals, school boards, municipalities as prescribed): requirements to disclose AI use, to develop and implement accountability frameworks, to take steps to manage risks, to have human oversight, and prohibitions on prescribed uses. It also addresses cyber security and children's digital information.

## Scope

Ontario public-sector entities as prescribed by regulation; not private organisations.

## Key dates

2024-11-25: royal assent; AI provisions in force on proclamation.

## Notes on dates

Dates are taken from the linked official source; a reviewer should confirm in-force and application dates before relying on them.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0037 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0037; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ca-ontario-enhancing-digital-security-and-trust-act-2024
- **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**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194), Schedule 1: Enhancing Digital Security and Trust Act, 2024" [AIPT-POL-0037, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0037 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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