Canada and France Conclude Bilateral Parliamentary Accord on Sovereign AI Infrastructure

PARIS, FRANCE — Delegations from the Parliament of Canada and the French National Assembly concluded a two-day interparliamentary summit in Paris Friday morning, formally signing the Paris-Ottawa Declaration on Sovereign and Ethical Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure.

Bilateral Compute Clusters and Open-Source AI Research

The accord establishes a $140 million joint capital fund to link high-performance public supercomputing facilities in Montreal (Mila) and Paris (CNRS), providing academic scientists and sovereign startup laboratories with dedicated GPU compute time to train open-source foundational language and biological models. The framework seeks to prevent academic research dependence on concentrated proprietary commercial cloud monopolies while establishing interoperable algorithmic bias audit protocols.

Parliamentarians emphasized that democratic nations must maintain independent, public-interest computing infrastructure to advance scientific discovery and preserve linguistic diversity in digital systems.

Intellectual Property and Ethical AI Guardrails

The agreement includes standardized copyright frameworks ensuring content creators and news publishers receive equitable compensation when digital works are utilized in AI model ingestion pipelines.

International technology ethics watchdogs praised the bilateral accord as a model for multilateral AI governance.

Joint Demonstration Projects Launch

The shared computational grid will initiate its first round of academic drug discovery and climate modeling research projects in October 2026.