Canada signs memorandum of understanding with Coveo to advance AI innovation
News release
The Government of Canada is taking another step toward strengthening Canada’s AI landscape by promoting responsible artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, supporting talent development and advancing sovereign AI infrastructure goals.
The Honourable Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and Quebec Lieutenant; and the Honourable Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, are pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Coveo Solutions Inc., a Canadian leader in AI technologies.
Shared Services Canada (SSC) and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) will work with Coveo to explore the deployment of Canadian-developed, AI-powered enterprise solutions across the Government of Canada. This MOU reflects the government’s commitment to modernizing public services, strengthening digital sovereignty and ensuring that Canadian innovation is at the heart of government transformation.
Through this collaboration, the government will assess how generative and agentic AI, advanced search and personalized recommendation technologies can improve service delivery for Canadians, reduce administrative burden and make government operations more efficient and responsive. The focus will be on identifying practical use cases that modernize internal operations, increase productivity and deliver better, faster services to people and businesses across the country.
This agreement supports the government’s broader commitment to building a more efficient, innovative public service while growing Canada’s AI ecosystem. By working with Coveo, a Canadian technology leader, the Government of Canada is investing in homegrown solutions, supporting high-quality jobs and ensuring that Canadian-made technology helps shape the future of digital government for Canadians, by Canadians.
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“This partnership with Coveo underscores the Government of Canada’s focus on delivering more efficient, secure and modern services for Canadians. By integrating Canadian-built artificial intelligence into core government operations, we are strengthening Canada’s digital sovereignty, improving how government works day to day and ensuring public investments support innovation and high-quality jobs here at home.”
— The Honourable Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and Quebec Lieutenant
“Today’s announcement with Coveo reflects Canada’s focus on putting artificial intelligence to work — responsibly, at scale, and in ways that deliver real value for Canadians. By working with a leading Canadian company through this memorandum of understanding, we are exploring how homegrown AI solutions can help modernize government operations, strengthen digital sovereignty, and improve how services are delivered to people and businesses across the country.”
— The Honourable Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
"We are honoured to work with the Government of Canada to significantly modernize public service operations. Our AI-Relevance technology is recognized all over the world and, through this collaboration, can now contribute to delivering faster, more intuitive access to precise answers for every Canadian. The opportunity is significant - this is about empowering all citizens and government workers to self-serve with instant access to accurate information, in their context. This will save Canadian’s time, helping them do more on their own, and will drive productivity gains for the country.”
— Louis Têtu, Executive Chairman, Coveo Inc.
Quick facts
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This MOU will remain valid for a period of 5 years.
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Coveo Solutions Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.
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The company specializes in optimizing user experience for enterprise software solutions with generative AI and agentic capabilities.
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As an anchor company within Canada’s AI sector, Coveo fosters competitive advantage, attracts talent and stimulates capital through knowledge sharing and collaboration.
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Generative AI is a type of AI that creates original content, like text, video, audio, images and code, based on user prompts.
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Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that can act as autonomous agents. Unlike traditional AI models that simply generate outputs based on prompts, agentic AI can plan, reason and execute tasks independently to achieve specific goals.
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SSC Media Relations
media@ssc-spc.gc.ca
Laurent de Casanove, Director of Communications
Office of the Honourable Joël Lightbound
343-551-7759
Media Relations
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
media@ised-isde.gc.ca
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