Major Projects Office of Canada: Initial Projects underneath Consideration

Backgrounder

An inventory of preliminary tasks into account by the Major Projects Office

A defining second for Canada

Canada stands at a pivotal juncture as the worldwide financial system undergoes profound transformation. Decisive motion is required to safe Canada’s long-term prosperity; it is a second to behave with ambition, confidence, and objective.

This is Canada’s alternative to assume massive and ship on tasks that can outline the following century. We should construct essential nation-building tasks at speeds not seen in generations. These tasks will create the infrastructure to diversify our buying and selling relationships, unlock new markets, and place Canada as each a clean-energy and conventional-energy superpower.

Canada should present clear and predictable regulatory pathways to draw world capital, speed up innovation, and encourage home funding. By doing so, we is not going to solely develop our financial system but additionally defend Canadian industries from over-reliance on any single export market, strengthening our sovereignty and resilience.

We can remodel our pure wealth, our world-class workforce, and our entrepreneurial spirit into engines of prosperity. With the suitable selections, Canada can lead within the vitality transition, form the way forward for essential mineral provide chains, and turn out to be a world hub for expertise and superior manufacturing.

Projects of nationwide significance for additional consideration

Projects deemed to be of nationwide significance and significance are being referred to the Major Projects Office who will proceed to work with proponents, provinces, territories and Indigenous Peoples to seek out the suitable method ahead for these tasks. The preliminary tasks into account are:

LNG Canada Phase 2 – Kitimat, BC

 

Darlington New Nuclear Project – Bowmanville, ON

 

Contrecoeur Terminal Container Project – Contrecoeur, QC

 

McIlvenna Bay Foran Copper Mine Project – East-Central, SK

 

Red Chris Mine enlargement – Northwest, BC

 

These tasks are examples of the sorts of main infrastructure Canada wants to attach our financial system, diversify our industries, and create 1000’s of high-paying careers whereas defending the surroundings and upholding the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Major Projects Office will proceed the work to seek out the suitable method ahead for every challenge.

The Major Projects Office will proceed to evaluation main tasks and can announce extra nation-building tasks over the approaching months.

Transformative Strategies

In addition to the 5 tasks being introduced at the moment for referral to the Major Projects Office, the Government has recognized strategic areas of focus and exercise that can be transformative for Canada and Canadians. Moving ahead with the pace and urgency of constructing Canada for the long run.

First, the Government needs to be sure that tasks within the nationwide curiosity advance rapidly. Building on this aim, the Prime Minister directed the Major Projects Office to remodel regulatory processes to supply the knowledge that each one main tasks are reviewed inside two years, from begin to end.

Additionally, there are transformative tasks for Canada, these cowl essential mineral growth, wind vitality, essential infrastructure within the North, ports, and transportation infrastructure connecting Canadians and our items with the world, in addition to revolutionary carbon seize and storage and carbon administration applied sciences. All meet the factors of progress, safety, diversification of markets and reconciliation.

The ideas and tasks that match inside these nation-building methods have boundless potential however are at an early stage and require additional growth. The Prime Minister additionally directed the Major Projects Office to create enterprise growth groups to work with provinces, territories, proponents, and Indigenous Peoples to additional develop and make these nation-building tasks a actuality.

• Critical Minerals​ Strategy: Canada is usually a powerhouse within the extraction and upgrading of essential minerals for industries that may emerge in Canada and to diversify and serve export markets. A precedence for the Major Projects Office can be to get extra essential minerals tasks get to remaining funding selections, with a deal with sustainability and regulatory certainty. This will allow essential mineral proponents working with Indigenous and native communities, traders, and provinces and territories to develop tasks in areas just like the Fosse du Labrador in QC and NL, the Northwest Critical Mineral and Conservation Corridor in BC, and the Ring of Fire in Ontario. The technique will result in the development of ports and roads and deal with the primary and final mile. Canada by way of its management on the G7 can be connecting with world companions to develop a Critical Mineral Alliance to match safe provide from tasks with world companions who’ve trade demand. This work seizes alternatives to construct new essential mineral worth chains for clear applied sciences and defence purposes for instance: creating “mines to magnets” utilizing our uncommon earth sources and constructing processing and manufacturing skills; and refining and processing minerals wanted for clear vitality and electrical energy battery storage, in addition to electrical autos.
• Wind West Atlantic Energy: A challenge that will leverage over 60 GWs of wind energy potential in Nova Scotia, and extra throughout Atlantic Canada, connecting that renewable, emissions-free vitality to Eastern and Atlantic Canada to fulfill quickly rising demand. The Major Projects Office will advance Wind West Atlantic Energy with proponents to develop the tasks and supply the regulatory certainty that pulls non-public funding and units a course for long run wind sources growth within the Maritime provinces. Wind West may very well be Canada’s first offshore wind growth and can set the dimensions, path and trajectory for future progress. Unlocking 5,000 MW within the first section may produce 24 TWh of fresh vitality yearly and drive billions in new funding and financial exercise throughout Canada, led by the non-public sector. This Eastern Energy Partnership may embrace essential tasks like interties between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, transmission cables between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick in addition to Quebec’s and Newfoundland and Labrador’s additional growth of Churchill Falls and Gull Island.
• Pathways Plus: An Alberta-based carbon seize, utilization, and storage challenge with further vitality infrastructure that will assist a robust standard vitality sector whereas driving down emissions and emissions depth from the oil sands. Pathways creates the prospect of facilitating low-carbon oil exports from the Alberta oil sands to a wide range of potential markets. The Major Projects Office will develop a method to construct the Pathways challenge which would cut back upstream emissions from the traditional vitality sector, whereas catalyzing non-public funding in further vitality infrastructure that will assist a robust standard vitality sector whereas driving down emissions and emissions depth from the oil sands. The Pathways challenge represents $16.5B in GDP, $12.2B in labour earnings, and between 18,500 and 43,000 jobs yearly.
• Arctic Economic and Security Corridor: The Arctic and Security Corridor is a strategic lifeline. Designed as dual-use infrastructure, it helps each Canada’s defence and financial objectives. From fortified ports and all-season roads to runways and communications programs, it’s constructed to serve navy operations and industrial growth alike. This hall strengthens Canada’s Arctic sovereignty and opens new alternatives for northern communities and Canadian trade. It is the place deterrence meets growth — a spine for each safety and prosperity.
• Port of Churchill Plus: Building upon the management of the Arctic Gateway Group, this challenge will improve the Port of Churchill and increase commerce corridors with an all-weather highway, an upgraded rail line, a brand new vitality hall, and marine ice-breaking capability. The transformative technique would prioritize Indigenous fairness possession, by way of a brand new Manitoba Crown Indigenous Corporation, and develop the tasks wanted to show the Port of Churchill in main 4 season and dual-use gateway to the area. Expanded export capability within the North by way of Hudson Bay would contribute to elevated and diversified commerce with Europe and different companions. The Major Projects Office will work with potential proponents to deliver certainty to the regulatory processes that can entice non-public and public sources of capital funding and extra strongly hyperlink Churchill to the remainder of Canada.
• Alto High-Speed Rail: Canada’s first high-speed railway, spanning roughly 1,000 km from Toronto to Québec City and reaching speeds of as much as 300 km/hour to chop journey occasions in half and join near half of Canada’s inhabitants. Joining main centres by way of Canada’s most densely populated areas, this initiative will yield advantages for key authorities priorities, together with:
  • Housing: contributing to the housing provide alongside the route, with a goal of 63,000 models.
  • Environment: offering a sustainable technique of journey, with a goal of 25 million tonnes of CO2 emissions financial savings.
  • Job creation: delivering well-paying jobs with a goal of 51,000 new jobs over 10 years.


Canada is the one nation within the G7 doesn’t have high-speed rail – to handle our looming transportation disaster, Canada has chosen this daring and impressive resolution. The MPO will work to speed up engineering, regulatory, and allowing work to allow and goal the beginning of challenge building in 5 years.

Visit the Major Projects Office web site to view these tasks on an interactive map.

The Major Projects Office

The Government of Canada established the Major Projects Office to get nation-building tasks constructed. Our nation’s future competitiveness will depend upon our potential to place Canada to construct larger and sooner, entice funding, diversify commerce, and bolster financial resilience.  

The Major Projects Office is a catalyst for the non-public sector participation and funding Canada must construct massive and construct quick. It is a single-window for proponents, Indigenous communities, and governments to assist determine and fast-track nation-building tasks that can develop Canada’s financial system.

It presents proponents of chosen tasks:

• Coordination with funding companions to arrange and construction financing.
• Coordinated assist for his or her tasks throughout all related federal departments and businesses.
• Guidance on assessments and regulatory necessities, and clear pathways in direction of federal selections.
• Guidance on establishing partnerships with Indigenous Peoples and fascinating meaningfully with Indigenous rights-holders all through the lifetime of a challenge.
• Strategic assist to determine options to limitations for challenge growth.
• Project monitoring and oversight.

One Canadian Economy

Investors, provinces and territories, and the enterprise group have expressed it’s too tough and takes too lengthy to construct economically possible tasks in Canada. Provinces and territories and plenty of Indigenous Peoples wish to see essential infrastructure tasks advance in assist of their pursuits and priorities.

Canada wants to make use of all of the instruments at its disposal to get main tasks constructed; tasks that can assist Canada turn out to be the strongest financial system within the G7, deepen our commerce relationships with dependable companions, and create good Canadian jobs.

Through the Building Canada Act, the federal government will expedite tasks deemed within the nationwide curiosity, by streamlining federal evaluation and approval processes to extend regulatory certainty, serving to entice capital, strengthening our industries, and transferring in direction of higher sovereignty and resilience whereas respecting Indigenous rights and defending the surroundings.

These tasks will improve Canada’s prosperity, nationwide safety, financial safety, nationwide defence and nationwide autonomy by way of the elevated manufacturing of vitality and items, and the improved motion of products, companies and employees all through Canada. They will strengthen entry to Canadian sources, items and companies for a various group of dependable commerce companions.

This is a crucial step in direction of enhancing Canadian productiveness, progress, and financial competitiveness as we work to construct one Canadian financial system as a substitute of 13. The One Canadian Economy laws offers a framework to take away federal inner commerce limitations and to advance main tasks of nationwide curiosity, so Canada will be stronger at dwelling and overseas.