In June 2022, the Canadian government tabled Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022, consisting of three separate acts, including the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA), Canada’s first attempt to regulate AI systems outside privacy legislation. Together with researchers from McGill University’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, the Cybersecure Policy Exchange at the Toronto Metropolitan University, and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, we outlined a few key challenges and recommendations for AIDA in a new report, AI Oversight, Accountability and Protecting Human Rights: Comments on Canada’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act.