Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada regularly conducts public consultations on various issues that affect Canadians. We invite you to learn more about our consultation activities and to participate and make your views known.
This section provides information on ongoing and past public consultations.
For a list of consultations currently under way in other federal departments, please visit the Government of Canada's Consulting with Canadians website.
Current consultations
Past consultations
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation
Business and industry
- Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Legislative Review
- Consultation Paper for the Space Advisory Board: Driving Canada's Future in Space
- Prosperity and Growth Strategy for Northern Ontario
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Competition Bureau
Corporate and Insolvency Law Policy
- Consultations on enhancing retirement security
- Consultation on the Canada Business Corporations Act
- Statutory Review of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act
- Thematic Summary of the Consultations—Reform of the Canada Corporations Act: The Federal Not-for-Profit Framework Law
Corporations Canada
Industry Sector
Innovative Solutions Canada
Measurement Canada
Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada
Science and innovation
- Canada: A Nation of Innovators
- Consultation: Developing a Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy
- Economic Strategy Table
- Overview of the Canadian Genomics Strategy
- Developing a National Quantum Strategy
Spectrum Management and Telecommunications
- Consultations
- Consultation on Personal Communications Services at 2 GHz
- Consultation on the 24 and 38 GHz Frequency Bands: Proposed Policy and Licensing Procedures
- Consultation Process for Licensing of the 2300 and 3500 MHz Frequency Bands
- Issues Related to the Preliminary Phase of the Antenna Tower and Site-Sharing Process
- Satellite-use Policy Consultation
- Spectrum Auctions — AWS - 2 GHz — Consultations
- Review of the Canadian Communications Legislative Framework
- Consultation on a New Set of Service Areas for Spectrum Licensing
Strategic Policy
- Consultation on increasing legal certainty in intellectual property services and administration
- Help shape the future of rural Canada – Moving from strategy to action
- Consultation on the implementation of the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Forum certifications in Canada
- National Digital and Data Consultations
- Strategic Policy Sector
- A Consultation on Options for Reform to the Copyright Board of Canada
- A Governance Framework for IP Agents
- Strengthening Corporate Beneficial Ownership Transparency in Canada
- Consultation on how to implement Canada's CUSMA commitment to extend the general term of copyright protection
- Consultation on a Modern Copyright Framework for Online Intermediaries
- Consultation on a Modern Copyright Framework for Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things
- Consultation on the future of competition policy in Canada
- Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Consultation on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Compute
- Consultation on the development of a Canadian code of practice for generative artificial intelligence systems