Prairies Economic Development Canada 2025–2026 Departmental Plan at a glance

Key priorities

Prairies Economic Development Canada’s top priorities for 2025-26 are as follows:

1. New Value and Competitiveness - accelerating economic growth through new sources of value and innovation in traditional sectors. Some examples include:
   • Working with businesses to create new revenue sources by adopting innovative technologies, bringing new products and services to market, and creating jobs in emerging sectors.
   • Continuing to strengthen important Prairie clusters such as zero-emission heavy equipment vehicle and manufacturing (ZHEV), value-added agriculture, and clean technology.
   • Using our programs and services to help build economic resilience in businesses and communities, increase Prairie exports, and assist with trade issues.
   • Implementing and administering the Regional Tariff Response Initiative as announced by the Prime Minister in March, 2025.
   • Implementing other new federal initiatives such as funding for innovation in housing and artificial intelligence.
   • Helping businesses and communities seize new opportunities in resource sectors while reducing environmental impacts.
2. Fostering Clean Growth - PrairiesCan, with other federal departments, will invest and work with regional partners to seize new sustainable economic opportunities. Working within the Framework to Build a Green Prairie Economy, the department had consultations with stakeholders and identified several focus areas. Some examples are:
   • Growing key regional sectors, including natural resources, agriculture, and manufacturing.
   • Effective movement of goods, people, and information.
   • Expanding and capitalizing on clean electricity.
   • Community economic development.
   • Indigenous economic reconciliation and inclusive growth.

   To learn more about the Framework and next steps, please see the PrairiesCan Green Prairie Economy webpage.

3. Inclusive Development - promoting more equitable and inclusive development.
   • Strengthening our inclusive development considerations in departmental roles as pathfinder, convenor, advisor, and investor.
   • Supporting increased economic participation of underrepresented groups such as Indigenous Peoples, black Canadians, women, members of the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community, persons living with disabilities, and youth.

Highlights

In 2025-26, total planned spending (including internal services) for Prairies Economic Development Canada is $278,535,562 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 340. For complete information on Prairies Economic Development Canada’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.

The following provides a summary of the department’s planned achievements for 2025-26 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.