Building Canada Strong – Bigger, faster, for all

Canada is attracting investment, expanding trade, and strengthening its global competitiveness

In a rapidly changing world, a confident Canada is choosing to build. We are transforming our economy to create certainty, opportunity, and prosperity. We are on the right track – with new, major, nation-building projects, thousands of new homes, and unprecedented levels of new investment pouring into Canada – and we are just getting started.

To accelerate this mission, the Government of Canada is working to fix inefficient, arduous, regulatory processes, strengthen collective bargaining, productivity, and worker protections, and build efficient supply chains that increase trade and make goods more affordable for Canadians.

Making it easier to build

Last August we launched the Major Projects Office to serve as a single point of contact to get nation-building projects built faster. Since then, we have advanced new ports, critical mineral mines, highways, railroads, and energy infrastructure. We are unlocking Canada’s energy and natural resources, making goods and services more affordable, deepening trade relationships with reliable partners, and creating hundreds of thousands of careers for Canadians.

The Major Projects Office was a significant step forward, though there is much more to do. It still can take up to five years for a project to receive the federal decisions necessary to begin construction, resulting in deferred investment in Canada, lack of growth, and falling behind in a competitive international environment. That is stalling growth, holding back Canada’s economic potential.  

The Government will be proposing comprehensive legislative changes to make project reviews and decision-making more efficient and predictable, while reinforcing strong environmental protections and upholding the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Protecting trade and transportation links

Canada needs an integrated transportation network that connects Canadian workers in factories to highways, highways to railways, railways to ports, and ports to global markets.  

The Government of Canada will address long-standing and structural challenges in Canada’s supply chains and modernise transportation, trade corridors, and marine governance.

Cutting red tape, streamlining regulations and approvals, simplifying rules and supporting digital trade will help attract investment, unlock new infrastructure development, and strengthen Canada competitiveness in global markets.

Protecting workers and securing a productive workforce

A strong economy also depends on safe, fair, and productive workplaces.

The Government of Canada is examining opportunities to modernise Canada’s federal labour relations framework, so federally regulated workplaces stay safe, fair and productive, contributing to a strong, resilient and growing economy.

Together, these efforts will make it easier to build and invest in Canada, strengthen the movement of goods and services, and support a strong workforce.

Listening to Canadians

We have been engaging with the Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, workers, businesses, and sectors that could be impacted.

From May 8 to July 22, 2026, we undertook engagement with Indigenous Peoples, provinces and territories, stakeholders and Canadians on related to major projects, and trade and transportation.

In addition, from July 20 to August 21, 2026, we engaged Indigenous governments and organizations, industry, workers, and Canadians on proposed reforms to modernize transportation security clearances.

In parallel, we led two rounds of engagement on potential changes to strengthen federal labour relations and worker supports  from April 17 to May 25, and from July 3 to August 2, 2026.

The Major Projects Office received over 26,000 submissions from Canadians, including over 400 written submissions from Indigenous Peoples and stakeholders, including industry, academia, and provincial, territorial and municipal governments.

Transport Canada received 89 submissions from Indigenous participants and 254 written submissions from other participants, including 227 from industry.

Employment and Social Development Canada’s engagement on labour relations and worker supports gathered feedback from more than 100 unions, labour organizations, employers, employer associations and National Indigenous Organizations through 13 targeted roundtables and 319 written submissions.

Four consultations, one purpose 

The Government of Canada is releasing four What We Heard reports that summarise the feedback received through consultations on:

• Major projects and regulatory efficiency
• Supply chains and transportation
• Transportation security clearances
• Labour relations and worker supports

Together, these engagement processes explored how Canada can build projects faster, strengthen and secure transportation networks, improve the movement of goods and services, and support fair and productive workplaces.

Across the consultations, participants raised the importance of more efficient and predictable decision making, resilient and secure transportation systems and strong supply chains, constructive labour relations, strong worker and environmental protections, and meaningful partnerships with Indigenous Peoples.

Participants in the transportation security clearance engagement generally supported efforts to address evolving security threats, while emphasizing that any future framework should be risk-based, proportionate, fair, adequately resourced, and developed in collaboration with affected sectors, workers, Indigenous partners, and communities.

Views differed on specific proposals and on how best to achieve change. The reports reflect this diversity of perspectives and provide an account of what participants told the Government of Canada.

The feedback received will help inform ongoing analysis and policy development as the Government considers the next steps.

Read the What We Heard reports

Other government efforts towards regulatory change

These efforts build on progress already achieved by departments and agencies to improve the efficiency of federal reviews for major projects. This includes ongoing work with provinces to implement a “one project, one review” approach, the Government’s red tape review, and other actions to streamline and simplify requirements.

Canada is building big again. By cutting red tape and streamlining approvals, we are accelerating major, nation-building projects that will help Canada deepen our trade relationships with reliable partners, and build a stronger, more independent, and resilient economy.