Canada just got its first AIMember of Parliament. It won’t knock on doors or trade partisan barbs. Instead, it does the one thing Canadians wish more MPs would do: read the fine print.
Our new “Builder MP” is a powerful tool. Created by the Build Canada community, it automatically fetches bills before Parliament from The Civics Project and analyzes them using OpenAI’s GPT-5, applies a pro-growth lens, and delivers a clear assessment: Does this legislation help build a stronger Canadian economy, hold us back, or leave things unchanged? It can even generate thoughtful questions that real MPs could raise in Question Period.
To our knowledge, this is the first AI parliamentarian anywhere in the world. That fact alone tells a story.
Canada’s economy is facing real challenges. Productivity growth has slowed. Major projects often take years to get approved. Investment too often flows elsewhere. And yet, despite this, our politics still moves at the same pace it always has. The scale of our challenges demands urgency and imagination. This project is about showing that the same technologies transforming industries can also modernize our public life.
Build Canada was founded on a simple conviction: Canada can and must grow again. We cannot accept declining GDP per capita as our future. That conviction animates our policy work, our convening, and now, our experiments with technology.
We built the AI MP for two reasons. First, because too much legislation passes through Ottawa without detailed scrutiny of its long-term economic consequences. MPs and senators face hundreds of bills, most of them dense and technical. Their staff are stretched thin. Lobbyists and large associations can afford policy teams to parse the fine print. The average Canadian cannot.
Second, because we believe AI will reshape how societies function, including how democracies govern themselves. Rather than resist that change, Canada should lead in harnessing it.
