Bold ideas to grow Canada, turned into actionable plans, backed by builders who've done it before
Canada has every raw ingredient to be a top-5 global power — massive land, critical mineral wealth, abundant energy, an educated population, and geographic security — but has squandered these advantages through decades of bad choices.
Build Canada
Canada needs to stop renting its digital backbone from foreign powers. 60% of our cloud runs on American servers under American law. This is a surrender of sovereignty.
John Ruffolo
Canada is in a productivity and execution crisis while the world is moving faster and becoming less forgiving. In this environment, delay weakens our economy and our ability to protect our interests.
A loophole in Canada's Start-Up Visa program created a path for fraud and abuse. “Consultants” brought in thousands of unqualified people to the country and pocketed millions of dollars.
Boris Wertz
Economic growth is driven by the creation of new companies and investments by existing companies. But in the last decade company formation and investment in Canada has collapsed.
Kim G C Moody
Canada excels at research and early startup formation but fails to grow companies past $100M in revenue—this is a critical gap to fix.
Michael Serbinis
AI is a tool, not a goal. It only matters when applied to real problems with measurable outcomes like faster healthcare or better education.
Ajay Agrawal
Productivity is the path to prosperity. AI is a general purpose technology that could help deliver productivity gains across every sector—but only if Canada acts with urgency.
Daniel Debow
A fifth of Canadians are functionally illiterate. This has massive social impacts and costs Canada $67 billion in productivity.
Heather Reisman
Canada is the undisputed mining capital of the world. But that leadership is slipping at the exact time that the world needs Canadian minerals the most.
Chris Doornbos
Steel is as essential to a modern nation’s prosperity as food. But over the last several decades Canada has allowed its steel output to wither.
Barry Zekelman
Canada has a world-class, compound semiconductor fab that could be a key part of advanced technology supply chains but it has been underinvested in for two decades.
Ivan Zhang
The U.S. decision to impose a $100,000 H-1B fee creates both risks and opportunities. Canada needs to move fast.
Martin Basiri
The ITB program requires defence contractors to invest in the Canadian ecosystem. But restrictions limit the program's benefits and prevent support for Canadian sovereign capabilities.
Eliot Pence
IRAP could be one of Canada's most impactful industrial policies but suffers from high operating costs, low quality capital allocation, and significant administrative burden.
Jeff Adamson
SR&ED credits are the largest federal support for R&D. But the process is complex, often rewards the wrong companies, and doesn’t support business value.
Harley Finkelstein
Identity verification is a key part of daily life allowing Canadians to access banking, healthcare, and other services online.
Peter Carrescia
Canada has some of the world’s most spectacular natural beauty. But most parts of the country are too hard to get to.
Zita Cobb
It takes 16 years to acquire military equipment. We need to reform our defence procurement system.
Canada was the 3rd country in space, but now ranks 12th in spending. This $5B industry is stagnant while other countries are experiencing massive growth.
Mina Mitry
Government and private sector need to work together in this moment of economic transformation
Andrew Graham
Canada's outdated capital gains policies are driving entrepreneurs and investors away. We need competitive tax reform to keep talent and investment here.
Matt Cohen
Canada will become the world's most AI‑literate nation by guaranteeing every citizen a path to mastering the technology.
Mike Murchison
Let’s make it easy for the world’s top scientists, innovators and engineers to come to Canada, and give them every reason to commercialize their findings here.
A new points-based system will recognize and reward immigrant contributions, not just check their qualifications prior to arrival.
Tobi Lutke
Canada has seen an alarming decline in national pride, community engagement, and unity. A mandatory one-year civic engagement program will reconnect Canadians with each other and their country.
AI is transforming creative industries. Let’s supercharge our world-class film, TV, advertising, gaming, and music sectors and turn this disruption into a competitive advantage.
Aidan Tracey
Prosperity does not come without an abundance of energy. But today it is exceptionally difficult to build new generation, transmission, and storage infrastructure.
George Babu
Canada's current innovation strategy has failed. We pay for promises, not results. We must reward proven successes instead.
Jamie McDonald
It’s time to refocus. Here is a line-by-line analysis of Canada’s spend today, with suggestions to re-allocate spend from programs that are no longer serving the public interest.
Lucy Hargreaves
Canada’s natural resource wealth is finite. A Sovereign Wealth Fund transforms today’s temporary resource profits into lasting, shared prosperity for all Canadians.
Shane Parrish
Canada’s military has fallen behind. We need to modernize fast or risk losing our ability to protect ourselves and support our allies.
Shaun Francis
Our world-class higher education system is being undermined by a critical shortage of student housing. Let’s build more homes to house some of our brightest minds.
Richard Abboud
Outdated zoning rules and slow approval processes prevent homes from being built. Let’s transform this system currently designed to block development and preserve the status quo.
Julie Di Lorenzo
Well-meaning efforts to curb foreign speculation have made it difficult for anyone to invest in building new homes. Let’s make it easier for people to get the financing they need to build.
Canada stopped building purpose-built rentals in the 1980s. Through targeted tax incentives, we can have the very people who serve our communities – nurses, teachers, police officers – afford to live in them again.
Mazyar Mortazavi
We tax cigarettes to reduce smoking – why are we taxing housing to death during a housing crisis? When taxes can make up 36% of a new home, it's no wonder Canadians can't afford them.
Brad Carr
Canadians don’t control their own financial data, making it painful to change providers or access new services. It’s time for Canadians to take control of their own data.
Stablecoins backed by the Canadian dollar will make transactions faster, cheaper, and more efficient, modernizing our digital payment infrastructure.
Som Seif
With modest changes to Old Age Security, we can create a wealth fund that gives every child $10,000 at birth, available for use towards things like education starting at 18.
Joe Canavan
Skilled tradespeople are the backbone of Canada’s future. Let’s get them building by reforming licensing to be based on a person’s skills rather than the hours they’ve trained.
Toby Shannan
Despite past efforts, Canadians still have some of the highest phone bills in the world. Drastic measures are needed to create affordable wireless that is actually long-lasting.
Brice Scheschuk
Canada imports $65 billion worth of food annually. But technology is rapidly making it possible for Canada to produce a lot of the foods we eat here at home.
Jon Lomow
Canadians have rightly grown skeptical of whether our government can do anything big. Let’s prove this isn’t true. Let’s build like a world leader.
Canada cannot afford to be held hostage to changing geopolitics. Let’s fast-track critical infrastructure so that we can easily access and sell Canadian energy.
Adam Waterous
The federal workforce has grown to an all-time high while delivering diminishing results. Let’s reform the system to deliver better services at lower costs.
Daniel Eberhard
AI is the key technology to unlock Canadian prosperity. We can wait and be forced to buy this technology from other global providers or become a world-leading creator of AI solutions ourselves.
Benjamin Alarie
Your credentials should work everywhere in Canada. Your business should sell everywhere in Canada. We are one country, let’s have one market.
Wayne Pommen
Your medical history should be available instantly to you and any doctor that needs it, anywhere in Canada.
Creators should be rewarded for creating content that celebrates Canada and Canadian achievements
Michael Litt
Canada could be the friendliest place in the world to build new transportation technologies by rapidly and safely permitting new modes of transportation
Stewart Lyons
The world's most innovative companies compete for top talent. It's time Canada competed the same way for immigrants.
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