Canada has long relied on the U.S. as its number one trading partner, with more than 75% of Canadian exports going south of the border in 2024. This tight integration has created immense benefits for workers and businesses in both Canada and the U.S. However, recent trade challenges between our ...
Canada imports a lot of what we use every day—consumer goods, technology, vehicles, and other manufactured products from around the world. What often gets forgotten is how we pay for all of it. Think of it all as Canada’s national trade “piggy bank,” where resource exports generate the earnings ...
Canada is an export-based economy, where the mining sector plays a crucial role. With our vast mineral and metal reserves ranging from gold and diamonds to nickel and uranium, Canada supplies a variety of ores, concentrates, and fabricated mining products to almost every country worldwide [1] – ...
Key Points • B.C. Premier David Eby says natural resources can support strong public services for Canadians • Access to tidewater on the Pacific Ocean opens up Asian markets for Canada's natural resources • Countries abroad are asking for improved access to Canada's abundant resources, and we nee...
Canada’s exports support Canadian jobs, communities, and our standard of living from coast to coast, and it should be no surprise that natural resources lead the way. Resources account for more than 50% of our total merchandise exports every year, providing economic opportunity and prosperity fo...
To build a stronger and more prosperous future for Canadians, we must harness our greatest natural advantages—and few are as impactful as our job-creating, prosperity-generating oil and natural gas sector. Creating a regulatory regime in Canada that supports oil and natural gas development—proje...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Asia, pitching Canada as a reliable source of natural resources the world needs. It’s great to hear the PM share that Canada is open for business, as he spoke at the 11-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). “We’re an energy superpower, an unabas...
The Major Projects Office (MPO), enabled by the “Building Canada Act” is a welcome turning point for Canadians and Indigenous peoples, and for our economy as a whole. It gives Canada the first chance in many years to break the logjam that has held back our biggest and boldest economic projects, ...
New internal polling from the Prime Minister’s Office shows that most Canadians overwhelmingly support new major projects of national interest, including highways, hydro plants, mines, pipelines, and LNG terminals [1]. The poll comes at a time when the federal government is looking to fast-track...
