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ISED opened a public consultation on AI transparency on July 23, closing September 23. It asks the questions the EU answered on August 2. For a small Canadian firm buying software today, the gap is the story.
On June 12, a US export-control order forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national, Canadians included. Model access is now a sovereignty risk, not only a data-residency one.
Colorado signed a bill repealing its landmark AI Act, dropping impact assessments and sliding the start date to 2027. For Canadian small firms with no federal AI law either, the takeaway is about software.
Carney's federal AI strategy is heavy on compute, adoption, and sovereignty, and light on binding rules. For a small firm picking software in 2026, the operative word is residency.
Bill C-27 died on prorogation in January 2025. Sixteen months later, Canada still has no federal AI law. The provinces moved in, and any future federal text will land on top of the patchwork.
A practical roundup of the AI tools small Canadian firms are actually running in 2026 for drafting, research, intake, and entity work. With prices, gotchas, and what is missing.
Harvey, Hebbia, and the other US-hosted legal AI tools are excellent. They are also a Law 25 problem for Quebec firms and a professional-secrecy problem for the rest of Canada.