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FIDELITY
( 2026 )
CANADA’S TOP 100
EMPLOYERS
Anthony Meehan,
PUBLISHER
Editorial Team:
Richard Yerema,
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Kristina Leung,
MANAGING EDITOR
Stephanie Leung,
EDITOR
Sonja Verpoort,
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Cypress Weston,
SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Krista Robinson,
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
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SENIOR BRANDING & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
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SENIOR EDITOR
Brian Bethune
Deborah Bourk
Abigail Cukier
Mary Dickie
Don Hauka
Patricia Hluchy
Diane C. Jermyn
Sara King-Abadi
Allison Lawlor
Katherine Macklem
Tom Mason
Rick McGinnis
Dianne Rinehart
Kelsey Rolfe
Rita Silvan
Barbara Wickens
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Toronto-based Fidelity Canada offers employees a robust mentorship program across all departments and
levels of the company.
F
or Canadian employers, it is difficult to
overstate the scale of the disruption unleashed
by rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
Other major forces – our shifting demographics, trade tensions with the United States – will
continue to shape the economy. But the impact of AI will
be deeper and more enduring than even the workplace
upheaval Canadians experienced during the pandemic.
AI is transforming the labour market across virtually
every sector, lowering costs, automating tasks, and
rendering some jobs obsolete. Yet the discourse has
focused too heavily on what will disappear and too little
on what is emerging. Thousands of Canadian job postings1
already require AI fluency, from basic prompt-handling to
advanced machine-learning engineering. The opportunity
is not merely in protecting existing roles, but in preparing
workers for the new ones that AI is creating.
The current surge of investment – accompanied by
soaring valuations – undeniably carries the hallmarks of a
financial bubble. Much of the U.S. spending behind the
boom is debt-financed, raising uncomfortable questions
about how leading AI firms expect to recoup such
enormous outlays. The dot-com crash of 2000, which
wiped out nearly 80 per cent of the NASDAQ index in two
years, remains a sobering warning. Corrections are
inevitable. But what is equally undeniable is that AI’s
capacity to streamline operations, enhance productivity,
1. Our sister project, the job search engine Eluta.ca, currently lists 10,341
job postings that require arti昀椀cial intelligence skills or experience.
and reshape entire industries will persist long after the
market volatility settles.
Crucially, Canada is better positioned for this transition
than many of its peers. We have one of the world’s most
highly educated2 populations and some of the lowest
electricity costs in the developed world3 – a huge advantage in an era when AI infrastructure is ravenously energyintensive. These strengths give Canada a chance not only
to adapt to the AI revolution, but to be one of its leaders.
What AI shares with Canada’s other looming challenges
is the risk of dislocation. The workers and companies that
stand to benefit will not be the same as those displaced.
For governments and employers, the priority must be
clear: invest in education and retraining to equip Canadians with the skills they need to thrive in an AI-driven
economy.
In The Fur Trade in Canada (1930), economic historian
Harold Innis famously described early Canadians as “hewers of wood and drawers of water.” As AI reshapes economies, Canada must build on its educational strengths and
natural-resource advantages to ensure history does not
repeat itself. The decisions we make today will determine
whether future generations see this moment as one where
Canada seized the opportunity – or shrank from it.
– Tony Meehan
2. Nearly 65% of Canadian adults have a college or university degree,
placing Canada at the top of the OECD’s most recent ranking of the 45
most-educated countries.
3. World Population Review, Cost of Electricity by Country, 2025.
