Implementing your agenda

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Purpose

1. Facilitate conversation so that we understand and support your goals for the coming weeks.
2. Discuss how to get up and running, from forming Cabinet, moving on signature priorities and managing issues that will come at you in the short-term.
3. Validate your approach to engaging key partners to advance your agenda.

Personal and team

• You
• Your family
• Your office

Personal and team

The Privy Council Office (PCO) is at your disposal to support you with:

• Your family:
  • housing, relocation, and personalizing the residence
  • personal devices and IT protections
  • general support
  • security protocols and protection
  • threats
• Your personal affairs:
  • declaration to the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
  • personal safety, including your security detail
• Your office:
  • building an effective working relationship between PCO and the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)
  • set-up, including onboarding of PMO staff and supporting structure of office and office logistics
  • secure communications
  • PCO support while travelling, on vacation, and during an election
  • preferred approach to managing early communication products, issues management, social media and correspondence

Setting up your Governance

• Your Cabinet
• Meeting Parliament
• Appointments

Engaging with key partners to advance your agenda.

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Direction on your approach for the coming weeks will inform sequencing and pacing of next steps [ * ]. We will adapt our approach and briefings with you accordingly.

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Early outreach

We have provided your office with a list of people [ * ] – that you may wish to engage as you assume your role.

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Appointments

PCO provides a wide range of support to you and your team in respect of Governor in Council (GIC) appointments process. This information was provided in your Appointments Book.

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Implementing your vision for Canada

• Geopolitics & Canada-U.S. interests
• Your plan for Canada
• Opportunities to advance your vision

Advancing your vision to build the strongest economy in the G7

You have presented an agenda to build the strongest economy in the G7 in the face of a complex and uncertain world.

We want to confirm that we understand your priorities – your focus, where you wish to take immediate action so that the public service is ready to deliver for you.

Key policy commitments you have made to enable a strong and resilient Canadian economy

• Creating one Canadian economy to refocus energy on removing internal trade barriers, including immediately convening First Ministers to:
  • identify national investment priorities remove interprovincial trade and licensing obstacles; improve labour mobility; reduce red tape and strandengthen our internal trade and supply chains; develop an inventory of critical economic infrastructure; and, crack down on anticompetitive and monopolistic practices.
• Build for Canadians, including more homes, more major projects, national building infrastructure and data centres; and, focus on infrastructure investment with multi-purpose use.
• Spend less, and invest more, including by balancing the operating budget in three years; improving the efficiency of the public service (including through AI); making long-term investments to build for Canada’s prosperity and future; and, catalysing major private investment.
• Making Canada secure by: investing in made in Canada defence equipment and dual use defence equipment; protecting against foreign interference; building up our military capabilities to meet the 2% NATO target by the end of the decade and modernize NORAD; strengthening military presence in the Arctic through dual use infrastructure; and, combatting organized crime, strengthen the border and build domestic resilience against pandemics.
• Ensure all Canadians get ahead by: working with PTs to improve access to family doctors, lower wait times and tackle homelessness and the drug crisis; incentivizing AI adoption across the economy; reskilling and retraining workers for the technological revolution; embedding reconciliation with Indigenous communities in economic policy; becoming a clean energy superpower; and, implementing a middle-class tax cut and removing the capital gains tax increase.
• A new climate plan that creates jobs and grows our economy by: removing the consumer fuel charge; create a system of incentives to reward Canadians for making greener choices; invest in energy efficient buildings and electrified transportation; and, have big polluters pay their fair share for their emissions, and pay Canadians to make green choices.

Advancing your vision to build the strongest economy in the G7

Supporting you in getting things done

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Advancing Canada’s interests (U.S./International)

The dynamic geopolitical context and shifts in U.S. posture are driving uncertainty and impacting Canada’s interests at home and on the world stage.

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Opportunities to advance your vision

There are opportunities both internationally and domestically to advance your vision. Strategic engagement with international partners will help advance your vision for Canada’s economy and diversify trade relationships.

Upcoming events: Beyond direct engagement with International and domestic partners, there are key opportunities in the coming months.

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• G7 Presidency (June 15-17): [ * ]
• NATO Summit (June 24-26): [ * ]

Files in progress

• Immediate decisions

Time-sensitive decisions

Time-sensitive issues will require your attention. Funding decisions will also be sought to support delivery of services to Canadians and sound operations of Government. In addition, we will brief you on a number of issues of interest that will require attention and management.

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Here’s where we could go next…

As noted through this document, briefings and resources are available at your convenience.

• ✔ Arrangements for you, your family and your team
• ✔ Management of Canada-US relationship (incl. approach to FMMs) and international context
• ✔ Fiscal and economic situation (incl. advancing your economic agenda)
• ✔ Cabinet formation / caretaker convention
• ✔ Parliament (incl. supply considerations, Speech from the Throne, legislative priorities)
• ✔ Equipping you to protect Canada and Canadians:
  • ✔ Management of emergencies, national security threats and defending the country, international context
• ✔ Policy priorities / urgent decisions

Annex

Canada-U.S. Relations

View from the U.S.	Response plan to U.S. Tariffs
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Canada-U.S. key “Trigger” dates

March 4

• Coming into force of 25% U.S. tariffs on Canadian exports + 10% on energy
• Deployment of Canada’s response (25% tariffs against $155 billion of U.S. goods – starting with tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods immediately)

March 6

• U.S. adjustments to tariffs: Exemption from IEEPA tariffs on goods that are imported into U.S. under CUSMA, as well as a reduction of tariffs on potash to 10%.

March 12

• U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum set to take effect (applicable to all countries)

April 2

• American First Trade Policy Study on unfair trade practices
• Fair and Reciprocal Plan, under which several of the reciprocal tariffs are set to take effect
• Potential deployment of Canada’s response (tariffs on the remaining $125 billion on U.S. products)

Other areas mentioned by President Trump but for which no formal actions has been taken:

• Tariffs on dairy (potentially as early as week on March 10)
• Tariffs on softwood (potentially as early as week on March 10)
• 25% tariffs on autos, pharmaceuticals, semi-conductors (applicable to all countries)

June 1

• Committee on Internal Trade review (labour mobility, exceptions under CFTA)

August

• U.S. anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders on softwood lumber products from Canada