Ontario is hoovering up the majority of Canada’s AI gains

AI-related jobs have pumped as much as $52 billion into Ontario’s economy in five years, about half of the estimated value the sector has created country-wide, according to a new Deloitte Canada report commissioned by the Vector Institute and shared exclusively with The Logic. The data offers one of the clearest pictures yet of AI’s economic impact in Canada.
Between 2019 and 2024, people working in AI contributed between $42 billion and $52 billion to Ontario’s GDP, compared to $82 billion to $100 billion across Canada. According to the report, each AI job added nearly $200,000 to Canada’s economy each year, well above the economic output per average worker in 2024, based on Statistics Canada and World Bank data.