Canada's Federal Government Grants C$13M to Amii to Train 50,000 K-12 Educators in AI

On September 9, 2026, the Canadian federal government announced C$13 million in funding to the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) to provide free AI education, with the goal of training 50,000 kindergarten-to-Grade-12 (K-12) educators. Indra Kubicek, CEO of Digital Moment, confirmed in an interview that her organization has trained 8,000 teachers on AI since 2023, while Canada has 400,000 teachers in total. She said the federal government's earlier target of training 3,000 teachers was low, and called the new funding an opportunity to build a nationwide strategic model.

This funding raises Canada's official AI teacher training target from 3,000 to 50,000, directly expanding the number of K-12 educators exposed to AI teaching capacity and affecting the pace of curriculum adoption and the path for education products to enter schools. The experience accumulated by organizations such as Digital Moment may be incorporated into a national strategy, but limited French-language resources and pre-service teacher coverage remain unresolved. No public details are yet available on training content, assessment methods, or actual completion rates. Canadian K-12 teachers gain significantly more access to free AI training, but the 50,000 target still covers only about 12.5% of the 400,000 teachers. Amii becomes the primary implementing body for federal AI education funding, potentially shifting the competitive landscape of Canada's AI education services market.