The Authority Gap
An Executive Governance Briefing · Strategic Edge Partners
Most Canadian organizations believe they have AI governance in place. What they have produced is documentation. The distinction carries practical weight the moment a decision produces harm.
The exposure does not live in the technology. It lives in the absence of defined authority over the decisions AI makes possible. Until that threshold is formally ratified at the right organizational level, organizations are not governing AI. They are assigning liability downward and calling it policy.
Acting early creates privacy law exposure. Acting late creates foreseeability claims. Both originate in the same structural gap. The variable is not timing. It is whether authority has been formally defined.
This briefing names the gap, maps where it lives in most Canadian organizations, and defines what closing it requires.
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