The World Continues to Ask for Canadian Resources. It's Time We Answered.

The World Continues to Ask for Canadian Resources. It's Time We Answered.

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Across the world, country after country is saying the same thing: they want Canadian natural resources. They want our energy, our critical minerals, and our expertise, and they see Canada as the safe and reliable supplier the world needs.

The only question left is whether we're ready to deliver.

Everywhere our Prime Minister and Energy Minister travel, the message is consistent. At the ASEAN Summit last October, PM Mark Carney laid out a clear and ambitious goal to double our non-U.S. exports over the next decade. Achieving that target, he said, would generate $300 billion more in trade and open new doors for Canadian resources, industries, and workers. This isn’t a small opportunity, but rather a generational one.

Soon after, during a November visit to Japan, government officials made it abundantly clear that energy security is a critical pillar of their relationship with Canada. They said they want more of our LNG and critical minerals, including lithium and graphite, to fuel their energy future. Not to be missed is that Japan’s government has been saying it wants more Canadian resources for years.

In February, the Prime Minister's visit to India led to the announcement of a new strategic partnership for the trade of LNG, LPG, uranium, and renewable technologies. According to Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, Indian officials expressed their desire to source as much oil and natural gas as possible from Canada to help meet their rapidly growing energy needs.

In March, Carney flew to Norway, where he highlighted Bay du Nord – Newfoundland's offshore oil project – as a key contributor to stabilizing global energy markets, which have been significantly disrupted by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

These are just four of many international engagements in recent months, all pointing in the same direction: toward Canada.

For too long, opponents of resource development have heavily influenced government policy in this country, helping to block hundreds of billions of dollars of job-creating investment. Our economic performance over the past decade – with weak GDP per capita growth and dangerously low productivity levels – reflects the cost of that ill-informed approach.

And while Canadian resource and trade infrastructure projects continue to drag along at a turtle’s pace through Canada’s notoriously slow regulatory process, our trade partners are actively calling on us to do more.

Canada's vast natural resource wealth, from oil and natural gas to critical minerals to fertile agricultural land, is our single greatest competitive advantage. But potential without execution is just a missed opportunity.

That is why, in the words of PM Mark Carney last year, we need to move at a pace not seen in generations. We need to build the pipelines, power plants, ports, railways, and roads that will move our resource-based products to new international markets – the very infrastructure that will help us diversify our export base and take control of our own economic destiny.

Trade diversification is no longer optional. It is essential. With the ever-shifting relationship with the United States making that clear, now is the moment for Canada to act.

The economic case is undeniable. More resource development means more good-paying jobs for Canadian workers, more tax revenues and royalties for our governments to fund our hospitals and schools, and a stronger foundation for the social programs that families across this country depend on. It means building a Canada that is more sovereign, more resilient, and more prosperous – from coast to coast to coast.

It is time we stopped taking our cues from anti-everything activists who have spent a decade saying no to every job-creating, prosperity-generating project in this country, and started listening to the nations abroad raising their hands and saying “yes” to more Canada.

The world wants more Canadian resources. We have them. It's time to build what it takes to deliver.