Liberal Platform - Canada Strong 2025

Unite: Uniting Canadians to Meet This Moment

Reduce red tape.We will require all relevant federal departments – such as Transport Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada – to undertake reviews and to report on progress, within 60 days, on steps to eliminate outdated or unnecessary rules, reduce duplication or overlap with provincial rules, and streamline the administration of rules and the delivery of regulatory decisions.
Invest in digital infrastructure for the economy of tomorrow.We will catalyze the construction and development of AI infrastructure including data storage facilities, computing capacity, high speed, safe and reliable communication networks, and digital supply chain solutions to improve efficiency and reduce costs for Canadians. This will include improving rural broadband and reliable cell service that connects communities.
Strengthen CBC/Radio Canada’s mandate by: Bolstering innovation and investing in new digital tools so that they can deliver the news when and how Canadians want it.
Make it easy for Canadians to Buy Canadian.Working with retailers, agricultural producers, manufacturers, food and beverage companies, and by maximizing Canada’s supply chain we will increase transparency and increase stringency in origin of product labelling so that it is simple, clear, and easy to identify what is a truly Canadian product. To help make this happen, we will provide support to help manufacturers adapt and for the Competition Bureau to enforce these new requirements.
Deploy a made-in-Canada procurement strategythat prioritizes, whenever possible, Canadian suppliers and supply chains, and limiting bidders from foreign suppliers to bidding only on what we have agreed to in Canada’s Free Trade Agreements. We will prioritize Canadian contractors in our defence procurement, including the Canadian aerospace industry. Crown Corporations with major capital acquisitions, like VIA Rail, will also be encouraged to meet this standard.
Buy Canadian clean by prioritizing Government of Canada purchases to be low carbon emission and when applicable, sustainability certified products and materials. This includes building materials, vehicle fleets, and other goods and services. We will support clean growth in Canada, create jobs, and support Canadian business.
Establish Buy Canadian standards for federal infrastructure funding including maximizing Canadian steel, aluminum, and forestry products.
Bet on Canadian innovators and entrepreneurs by leveraging the government’s purchasing power to drive Canadian innovation, solving Canadian problems in new ways, and improving efficiency and service delivery, while supporting our small and medium-sized businesses.

Secure: Securing Our Sovereignty and Our Economy

Modernize our CAF recruitment process,including by streamlining security clearances and applying online, so that more applicants can get trained, faster. Every year, thousands of Canadians try to join the CAF, but encounter frustrating barriers and a slow process, leading to a recruitment rate of less than 10%. To solve our personnel crisis, we need to make it easier for high-quality candidates to enter service more quickly.
Expand our ability to monitor our coastlines and secure Canada’s Arctic, including with new submarines for the Royal Canadian Navy and additional heavy icebreakers, building on our commitment to all orders underway through the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
Expand our fleet of aerial and underwater drones to build a persistent presence in the air and sea, including persistent surveillance to protect against threats in the Arctic and at our border. We will work to build Canadian industry through defence partnerships and by leveraging domestic innovations.
Buy Canadian-made airborne early warning and control aircraft,supporting our domestic aerospace industry and accelerating the procurement process.
Support the Canadian Army with significant new investments,such as new self-propelled artillery systems and ground-based air defence capabilities so that the CAF have the capacity to operate in today’s context.
Give the Canadian Coast Guard a new mandate and the right equipment to conduct maritime surveillance operations to secure our coasts. Our Coast Guard carries out important work, but we need to update their mission to protect our sovereignty and counter criminal activity, such as drug trafficking. Expanding the reach and abilities of the Canadian Coast Guard will also mean integrating them into Canada’s NATO defence capabilities.
Establish the Bureau of Research, Engineering and Advanced Leadership in Science (BOREALIS) to ensure the Canadian Armed Forces and Communications Security Establishment have the made-in-Canada innovation solutions they need in areas such as AI, quantum computing, cybersecurity, and other advanced research and technology.
Overhaul defence procurement to better meet our needs and the urgency of the moment by:
- Establishing a new Defence Procurement Agency.
- Amending legislation and regulations as required, including taking steps to expand risk-based approaches to approvals, to centralize expertise from across government and streamline the way we buy equipment for the military.
- Buying Canadian whenever possible and prioritizing Canadian raw materials such as steel, aluminum and critical minerals.
- Boosting Canada’s domestic defence industries and production as we build security relationships with our partners. That includes advancing Canada’s involvement in the ReArm Europe Plan in support of transatlantic security, and prioritizing investment here in Canada – with every dollar spent wisely and effectively.
Move forward to detect and deter early warning radar coverage of threats to the Arctic by working with partners in Australia to develop advanced Over-the-Horizon Radar. This will also help deepen our defence and trade ties with Australia.
Expand our fleet of aerial and underwater drones – as well as investments in Canadian satellite technology – to build a persistent presence across the North to monitor our vast landscape and the world’s longest coastline by investing in made-in-Canada innovations.
Modernize and streamline the benefits system for veterans, to deliver faster decisions, shorter wait times, and less paperwork so that Veterans and their families get the support they need sooner and more easily.
Respond to existing U.S. tariffs on our economy for as long as is necessary while also ensuring that we are safeguarding Canadian industry from the threat of trade diversion. Every dollar raised from these tariffs will support Canadian workers and businesses affected by the trade war.
Create a $2 billion Strategic Response Fundto boost our auto sector’s competitiveness, protect manufacturing jobs, support workers to upskill their expertise in the industry, and build a fortified Canadian supply chain – from raw materials to finished vehicles.
Build an “All-in-Canada” network for auto manufacturing component parts.With this network, we will work with industry to build more car parts in Canada, limit those parts crossing the border during production, and attract investment into our own industry.
Maximize Canada’s steel, aluminum, and critical minerals– from exploration to battery production – to seize this economic opportunity, create higher-paying jobs, and build the strongest economy in the G7.
Safeguard our economy and our values and protect Canada from attempts to buy up our businesses, our core public health care, intellectual property, critical minerals and other resources by strengthening the Investment Canada Act. We will make more transactions reviewable, as well as modernizing standards to capture manipulative transaction models – including by reviewing the potential impacts to Canada’s data sovereignty. We will also make clear that any transactions involving core infrastructure in our public health system, such as long-term care facilities and family health practices, will be subject to stringent review and protection under the Act.
Leverage Canadian expertise to solve global problems – including leveraging our tech ecosystem – with increased funding to accelerate progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Protect: Protecting our Values as Canadians

Ensure Canadians can securely access their health care data because your medical history should be available instantly to you and your doctor anytime and anywhere in Canada. We will table legislation to enable secure access to health data. Better data that moves with patients to each new appointment means better care, better outcomes, and more choice for patients.
Reduce the administrative burden on doctors with streamlined and standardized forms and scaling up digital tools that significantly reduce paperwork and leave more time for patient visits. And we will also launch a new program to support doctors in safely and securely adopting new digital tools such as e-prescribing and e-referrals. We will also support tools that are bilingual for doctors and nurses.
Launch a Task Force for Public Health Care Innovationto invest and scale up made-in-Canada public health care solutions, leverage, and improve the quality of data, and evaluate and ensure accountability in public investments in health care, including the $25 billion Working Together Agreements signed with provinces and territories.
Create a strategic water security technology fund to advance development of related Canadian R&D, AI, monitoring, and data tools.

Build: Building the Strongest Economy in the G7

Work towards a fairer and faster process and enhance service delivery for immigration applicants by leveraging digital service tools to reduce processing times and eliminate backlogs to ensure that our immigration system is more reliable for families, businesses, and applicants.
Strengthen the integrity of the border by increasing resources for security screenings, quickly identifying and removing inadmissible individuals, tightening visa requirements, and enhancing enforcement against immigration fraud.
Broaden the Critical Mineral Exploration Tax Creditby expanding qualifying minerals to include critical minerals necessary for defence, semiconductors, energy, and other clean technologies.
Move forward on Canada’s six major investment tax credits (ITCs) that support clean energy and technology — the Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage ITC, Clean Technology ITC, Clean Electricity ITC, Clean Hydrogen ITC, Clean Technology Manufacturing ITC, and Electric Vehicle Supply Chain ITC.
Finalize and implement the voluntary made-in-Canada sustainable investment guidelinesfor every priority sector by fall 2026.
Become a world leader in carbon removal and sequestration by establishing Canada as a world leading hub for carbon removal and sequestration technology. We will ensure that the full value of the Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Investment Tax Credit (CCUS ITC) is extended to 2035, support a broad range of technologies and innovation in carbon removal, accelerate offset protocol development across a range of carbon removal technologies, and establish a separate carbon removal target for Canada for 2035 and 2040.
Reduce the cost of investment for Canadian companies and make sure they are internationally competitive by extending immediate expensing for manufacturing or processing machinery and equipment, clean energy generation, energy conservation equipment, and zero-emission vehicles, as well as the Accelerated Investment Incentive.
Drive increased private sector investment in research and developmentby increasing, to $6 million, the claimable amount under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentive Program (SR&ED) for Canadian companies, along with other reforms, to drive economic growth for small and medium-sized businesses. This program will help Canadian companies stay on the cutting edge, build in Canada, and stay ahead of foreign competitors.
Invest in our homegrown startups by recapitalizing the Venture Capital Catalyst Initiative (VCCI) by $1 billion. Combined with Mark Carney’s previously announced reversal of the capital gains hike, this will encourage Canadian capital funds to take risks and invest in promising companies. It’s about fueling our startup ecosystem, commercializing Canadian science, and betting on our own companies. This will include a defence-specific stream to catalyze our early-stage defence companies.
Incentivize investment in innovation, especially in Canada’s startups, to help them grow and scale by introducing flow-through shares to our Canadian startup ecosystem, supporting companies in AI, quantum computing, biotech, and advanced manufacturing to raise money faster. This works by allowing companies to issue new shares that allow investors to deduct eligible R&D expenses directly from their taxable income, lowering the risk of investing in innovative Canadian companies. This builds off the successful model that has drawn investment into Canada’s world-leading mining sector and will help our startups to scale up and be the best in the world.
Bring IP back to Canada and attract talent by creating a Canada Patent Boxthat will reward builders who locate or stay in Canada. This will encourage more businesses to grow at home and create jobs here. This will reverse the flow of made-in-Canada ideas to the U.S., ending the trend of subsidizing the U.S. economy with Canadian-grown ideas.
Make the Black Entrepreneurship Program permanent and provide ongoing funding to support Black-owned businesses. The more entrepreneurs with good ideas that are supported, the more resilient and sustainable our growth will be. Supporting Canadian businesses from every community is how we build Canada strong.
Secure the Canadian advantage in strategic industries like biomanufacturing, quantum computing, and ag-tech. These industries protect our sovereignty and security—from being able to make our own vaccines and medicines, to protecting our security, to ensuring food security. These industries will keep us sovereign, set Canada up to lead in the economy of the future, and create high paying jobs.
Build AI infrastructure by:
- Investing in nation-building energy infrastructure and cutting red tape to make Canada the best place in the world to build data centres. Canada must have the capacity to deploy the AI of the future and ensure we have technological sovereignty.
- Building the next generation of data centres quickly and efficiently by leveraging federal funding and partnering with the private sector to secure Canada’s technological advantage.
Invest in AI training, adoption, and commercialization by:
- Measuring growth by tracking the economic impacts of AI in real-time – not just occasionally – so we can proactively help Canadians seize new opportunities, boost productivity, and ensure no one is left behind.
- Boosting adoption with a new AI deployment tax credit for small and medium-sized businesses that incentivizes businesses to leverage AI to boost their bottom lines, create jobs, and support existing employees. Companies would leverage a 20% credit on qualifying AI adoption projects, as long as they can demonstrate that they are increasing jobs.
- Catalyze commercialization by expanding successful programs at Canada’s AI institutes (Mila, Vector, Amii) so that we can connect more Canadian researchers and startups with businesses across the country, which will supercharge adoption of Canadian innovation in businesses, create jobs, and strengthen our AI ecosystem.
Improve AI procurement by:
- Establishing a dedicated Office of Digital Transformation at the centre of government to proactively identify, implement, and scale technology solutions and eliminate duplicative and redundant red tape. This will enhance public service delivery for all Canadians and reduce barriers for businesses to operate in Canada, which will grow our economy. This is about fundamentally transforming how Canadians interact with their government, ensuring timely, accessible, and high-quality services that meet Canadians’ needs.
- Enabling the Office of Digital Transformation to centralize innovative procurement and take a whole-of-government approach to service delivery improvement. This could mean using AI to address government service backlogs and improve service delivery times, so that Canadians get better services, faster.
Attract leading researchers to Canadian institutions by creating the Canadian Sovereignty and Resilience Research Fund. If the U.S. cuts a researcher’s project funding, we will work with the Canadian research ecosystem if projects can directly help Canadians or be commercialized here. Where the U.S. is squeezing out researchers, we will look to welcome research here in Canada. Eligible researchers could include professors and graduate students. More researchers at home will help us solve Canadian problems, and export more Canadian solutions to the global marketplace.
Finalize Canada’s modernization of science and research, through the creation of a capstone organization that will ensure the federal granting agencies are driving mission-driven research that brings Canadian expertise to big global challenges and effectively commercializes homegrown ideas.
Launch a new training and upskilling benefit worth up to $15,000 for workers in the middle of their careers. This benefit will be targeted to workers in priority sectors including manufacturing, health care, construction, AI, and technology. In the face of the economic uncertainty and volatility many Canadian businesses are facing, we will collaborate with employers to support retention and upskilling within their companies.
Futureproof the workforce by ensuring federally funded training programs better align with labour market needs, which means meeting the needs of employers today, and the employers of tomorrow. To secure Canada’s future, we need to build up the domestic skills and capabilities of our workforce in sectors like AI and cybersecurity, to spur innovation in Canada. We will track labour market impacts of AI to rapidly adjust training programs, so workers are continually ready for the jobs of the future.
Leverage technology at the Canada Revenue Agency to better identify and prosecute instances of tax evasion, fix loopholes, and strengthen enforcement.

Sonya is a young professional who holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Political Science and a minor in Law & Society from the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto (U of T) – Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. During her time at school, Sonya had the opportunity to conduct various research projects for her department, including investigating Greece’s defence expenditures on behalf of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy – Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.