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AI Law for Canadian Businesses and Lawyers

Navigate Canada's evolving AI legal landscape, mastering compliance and risk management to strategically leverage AI for business growth and ethical innovation.

Created byCharles S. Morgan
BeginnerUpdated Dec 8, 2025
AI Law for Canadian Businesses and Lawyers

What You'll Learn

check_circleUnderstand AI's definition and applications in Canadian contexts.
check_circleAnalyze legal and regulatory trends shaping AI in Canada.
check_circleGrasp privacy law compliance with PIPEDA for AI technologies.
check_circleExamine AI accountability, liability, and risk management tactics.
check_circleEvaluate IP ownership challenges for AI-generated works.
check_circleImplement ethical AI principles and governance frameworks.

About This Course

Navigate the complex and dynamic landscape of AI law in Canada with "AI Law for Canadian Businesses and Lawyers." This comprehensive course, led by a recognized expert in cybersecurity and technology law, offers an in-depth exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping legal and business contexts across the nation.

You will gain crucial insights into:

  • **Introduction to AI in Canadian Legal and Business Context:** Understand foundational AI definitions, key applications across Canadian industries, and emerging legal and regulatory trends.
  • **Privacy Compliance and Data Governance:** Delve into the interaction of PIPEDA and provincial privacy laws with AI technologies, focusing on compliant use of personal and de-identified data.
  • **AI Accountability, Liability, and Risk Management:** Explore legal theories of liability for AI outcomes, learn about case law examples, and master essential risk mitigation strategies like explainability and human-in-the-loop controls.
  • **Intellectual Property and AI Created Works:** Unpack how Canadian IP law addresses ownership of AI-generated content, implications for creators, and emerging disputes.
  • **AI Ethics and Governance Frameworks:** Discover essential principles for trustworthy AI, effective ethical risk assessment tools, and strategies for implementing robust governance.
  • **Sectoral Guidance and Emerging Challenges:** Analyze AI's impact on various sectors like employment, finance, and healthcare, and understand unique challenges, including bias, discrimination, and third-party vendor risks.

By the end of this course, legal professionals and business leaders will be equipped to strategically plan for AI adoption, manage associated risks, and ensure compliance within Canada's evolving regulatory environment, making informed decisions that drive innovation while upholding ethical and legal standards.

Your Instructor

Charles S. Morgan
Charles S. Morgan

Partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP

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Charles is the national co-leader of McCarthy Tétrault’s Cyber/Data Group and former leader of Technology Law group. He is the former President of the International Technology Lawyers Association (iTechLaw). Charles’ practice takes a 360-degree approach to data, helping clients extract the tremendous value inherent in data, while at the same time managing the associated risks. He is a recognized thought leader on the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence. Charles regularly serves as "breach coach" for clients in matters of enterprise-wide risk, including on three of the largest cyber incidents in Canadian history. Charles’ practice is focused on advising many of the firm’s largest clients on their most complex commercial transactions involving IT outsourcing, systems integration, cloud, financial technologies, data security, artificial intelligence, privacy, licensing, e-commerce and telecommunications. As former President of ITechLaw, Charles developed a worldwide network of trusted correspondent counsel that allows him to provide seamless client service around the globe, alerting clients to new developments and helping them to manage risks worldwide. Charles was ranked “Lawyer of the Year” for Privacy and Data Security Law (Montréal) in Best Lawyers in Canada (2025), “Lawyer of the Year” for Technology Law (Montréal) in Best Lawyers in Canada (2024), and a “Global Elite Thought Leader” regarding Data Privacy and Protection, Data Security and Information Technology in WWL Thought Leaders Global Elite 2024. Charles is a board member of the Human Technology Foundation and also presides over the board of Danse à la carte. Charles received his BCL/LLB in 1997 from McGill University and was admitted to the Québec Bar in 1998.

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