A Powerful and Independent Canada

This policy paper proposes a nine-pillar strategy to strengthen Canada's economic and industrial independence from its historical dependence on U.S. markets. The proposals span reducing critical imports from the United States, attracting strategic industrial investment, building a national semiconductor and artificial-intelligence hub, deepening trade ties with the European Union and Asia, an electric-vehicle-focused automotive strategy, developing the country's 34 critical minerals, a tax program to incentivize the voluntary repatriation of capital held abroad, attracting skilled talent through immigration, and eliminating interprovincial trade barriers — estimated by the IMF to cost the equivalent of a 9.5% tariff. Each proposal is grounded in verified public data (Statistics Canada, Natural Resources Canada, the IMF) and distinguishes measures achievable in the near term from long-term goals that would require changes to international law. Written to serve as a framework for debate among Canadian political parties, the paper combines an ambitious economic vision with factual rigor.