🇨🇦 Canada 2035
A National Renewal Plan (Draft for Discussion)
Read A Letter to Canadians →This plan is a conversation starter — not a decree. The goal is to generate ideas, pressure-test priorities, and build a community that insists on transparency, execution, and measurable results. Upvote the ideas that resonate, share feedback, and help sharpen a 10-year framework that can restore Canada’s confidence and capability.
1. Set the Mission — “Build Capacity, Restore Confidence.”
Every policy must pass a single test: “Does this make Canada more capable — economically, environmentally, militarily, or technologically — within 10 years?”
That’s the organizing principle. Everything else is detail.
2. Rebuild Fiscal Credibility
Balance the primary budget by 2028, cap debt below 45 % of GDP, and shift from stimulus to disciplined investment.
Transparent, credible finances restore investor confidence, protect the dollar, and lower borrowing costs — the foundation for everything else.
3. Engineer a Productivity Revolution
Canada’s output per worker is ~30 % below the U.S. and slipping. Productivity equals prosperity — and we are falling behind.
We need incentives, infrastructure, and immigration aligned around building things here at home.
4. Solve Housing with Focus, Not Panic
Stabilize affordability without crashing household wealth. Calm beats chaos.
Supply must finally catch demand — and incentives must reward completed homes, not recycled announcements.
5. Modernize Defence & Peacekeeping
Meet and sustain 2 % of GDP on defence by 2027 — and spend it smartly.
Security is sovereignty. Investments must build capability, not bureaucracy.
6. Lead on Clean Energy & Resources
The world needs Canadian minerals, energy, and low-carbon technology. We can lead without losing discipline.
Execution beats subsidies: approve real projects, measure real emissions reductions.
7. Restore Government Competence
Our delivery machinery is broken — Canadians feel it every time a project runs late or a service line stalls.
Execution is the brand. Fixing delivery proves the plan isn’t just another brochure.
8. Human Capital Compact
A skilled, healthy, motivated population is Canada’s true strategic asset.
Make it easier to train, easier to work, and easier to stay healthy.
9. Reignite Civic Confidence
Democracy needs sunlight. Canadians want to see where money goes and who influences decisions.
National unity flows from shared projects — rail, power, digital infrastructure that binds us.
10. Measure Relentlessly
If it’s not measured, it’s not managed. Publish a Canada Scorecard quarterly and course-correct early.
Public metrics build trust and make leaders accountable to results, not narratives.
🔧 The Canadian Equation
Fiscal Discipline + Execution + Focused Growth = Renewed Sovereignty and Prosperity.
Canada doesn’t need more slogans or subsidies. It needs competence, prioritization, and public honesty about trade-offs. If we balance our books, invest only in things that raise productivity or security, rebuild our delivery machinery, and hold leaders to measurable results, Canada can once again stand as a G7 model of stable democracy, innovation, and stewardship.
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