What works in Ottawa
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Evidence snapshot for Ottawa
Canada has implemented several major federal policy initiatives with measurable outcomes. The $10-a-Day Child Care programme has reduced parental child-care spending from ~16% to 5% of after-tax family income and contributed to maternal labour-force participation reaching a record 79.6% by 2023, though only 112,000 of 250,000+ targeted new spaces were created by 2024/25. The Pay Equity Act (2018) requires ~5,000 federally regulated employers covering 1.4 million workers to close pay gaps, with enforcement activity rising sharply (employer requests increasing from 21 to 465 in 2024-25), though the gender pay gap in federally regulated workplaces remains at C$0.87 per dollar earned by men. The Algorithmic Impact Assessment directive mandates all federal automated decision systems to publish risk assessments via 65 risk and 41 mitigation questions, establishing transparency before deployment.
Drawn from: Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System ($10-a-Day Child Care) · Digital Literacy Exchange Program (DLEP) · Canada's Federal Pay Equity Act 2018 — Proactive Equal-Pay Regime for Federally Regulated Workplaces · Canada's Algorithmic Impact Assessment — a Mandatory, Published Risk Score for Every Automated Government Decision · Assemblyline — Canada's Machine-Learning Malware Triage Platform Defending Government Networks · CDA-AMC's Evaluation of AI Search Tools for Health-Technology-Assessment Evidence Synthesis · IRCC IEC Work Permit Eligibility Model — Canada's AI Tool for Youth Mobility · Canada's Federal AI Register — a First Public Inventory of 409 Government AI Systems
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +15 pts 68 here · 54 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 43 average
Achievement / evidence -13 pts 75 here · 88 average
Effectiveness -18 pts 50 here · 68 average
Innovation level -22 pts 40 here · 62 average
Demonstrated reach -26 pts 50 here · 76 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Ottawa. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System ($10-a-Day Child Care) · 96
Digital Literacy Exchange Program (DLEP) · 88
Canada's Federal Pay Equity Act 2018 — Proactive Equal-Pay Regime for Federally Regulated Workplaces · 85
Assemblyline — Canada's Machine-Learning Malware Triage Platform Defending Government Networks · 80
CDA-AMC's Evaluation of AI Search Tools for Health-Technology-Assessment Evidence Synthesis · 80
IRCC IEC Work Permit Eligibility Model — Canada's AI Tool for Youth Mobility · 80
Canada's Federal AI Register — a First Public Inventory of 409 Government AI Systems · 73
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
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