The stars are aligned: now Canada must deliver on its natural resources
If we don’t seize this moment, we may not get another. Because if Canada doesn’t step up, others will.
Canada should be a mining superpower, too
Being a mining superpower isn’t just about mining the most. It’s also about having the ability to supply the material needs of our allies in a reliable and secure manner.
Governments and Indigenous communities have historic opportunity to fast track projects
Governments and proponents must grasp this reality: Indigenous groups, while enthusiastic about development, need fair access and meaningful participation.
Being an energy superpower in 2025 means going clean
Investing in clean technologies and supply chains is now an economic imperative globally. Of Canada’s 10 largest non-U.S. trade partners, all have net-zero commitments and carbon pricing systems, and roughly half apply carbon border adjustments on imports and have domestic EV requirements.
The generational imperative for Canada to embrace its resource advantage
Liberals cannot afford to simply tolerate Canada’s resource economy. They must champion it.
Giving Canadian critical minerals ‘a reasonable chance’
While Canada has long been a major producer of copper, nickel, zinc and others on the critical minerals list, our path to getting other high priority critical minerals–like lithium and rare earth elements–‘produced in Canada’ may be a rocky one.
Before we get our resources to market, we need to make sure those markets actually want them
Canada was built on forestry, but if we want to ensure that that industry and the over 200,000 people employed in it can continue to thrive, things are going to have to change.
Trust can’t be legislated, but it can be built
First Nations must be included as business partners from the outset, and it’s a question of laying out a framework for how to move projects forward with their involvement.
Canada can be a resource superpower if we build the road to get goods to market
What we need is a co-ordinated, long-range strategy, a national trade corridor plan that links the country’s productive zones to its export gateways through reliable, resilient, multimodal infrastructure.
The urgency of confronting a warming world remains
As Mark Carney battles Donald Trump’s trade wars and confronts western alienation, he will also have to lead Canada’s heighten effort in the energy transition and prepare the country for the baked-in impacts of climate change.
