Our country deserves a confident policy that prioritizes the wellbeing of its own citizens and is built on a clear understanding that the interests of our larger neighbour is not always the same as ours. Our goal is an independent Canada in a multipolar world — not a junior partner whose resources, data, and decisions are dictated from abroad.

This is no longer an abstract concern. A sitting U.S. president has repeatedly mused about making Canada the “51st state,” launched a trade war against us, and declared that the United States “doesn’t need anything that Canada has” — all while 70% of our exports flow south of the border. We will not respond to provocation with submission. A nation that allows its sovereignty to become “a great discussion for the president and the prime minister to have” has already begun to surrender it. Canada is not for sale, and it is not for annexation — not now, not ever.

Our approach to the world is rooted in the tradition of confident middle powers that have refused to be crushed between empires. We reject the logic that forces every nation to choose a side in a new bloc confrontation. We will not be a pawn squeezed between Washington and the increasingly assertive power bloc led by Beijing — we will be a sovereign democracy that cooperates with all and bows to none, diversifying our trade and our alliances so that no single capital can hold our prosperity hostage.

For too long, critical judgment has been outsourced: our resources sold to foreign shareholders, our industries hollowed out, and our strategic assets allowed to fall into foreign hands. Nickel, cobalt, copper, graphite, and rare earths are now strategic resources tied directly to our economic resilience and our defence — and China alone controls up to 90% of global refining capacity for rare earths, lithium, and cobalt. We will treat critical minerals as a national-security asset, process them at home, and build resilient supply chains with trusted partners rather than surrendering control to whoever bids highest.

More than 80% of Canadian cloud services rely on foreign infrastructure, and a U.S. company — or its foreign subsidiary — can be compelled under the American CLOUD Act to hand over data even when that data is stored on Canadian soil. A Canadian hospital can schedule its staff, manage patient intake, and store records on foreign-controlled platforms, each one a separate point of jurisdictional exposure to a foreign government. This is a quiet erosion of sovereignty disguised as convenience. We will require that Canadians’ data be governed by Canadian law, give Canadian-owned providers priority in public procurement, and ensure that the digital systems our institutions depend on cannot be reached, throttled, or switched off from abroad.

Our own intelligence service has named five states — including the People’s Republic of China and India — as the main perpetrators of foreign interference and espionage in this country, engaging in election meddling, the theft of our technology, and transnational repression that surveils and intimidates diaspora communities on Canadian soil. We condemn every attempt by corporations, intelligence agencies, and governments, whether foreign or domestic, to monitor and manipulate the people of this country. No outside regime will be permitted to harass, threaten, or silence any community within our borders, and no foreign power will be allowed to buy influence over our politics.

As the ice recedes, Russia and China are eyeing the North’s critical minerals, energy, and new trade routes. A claim we cannot defend is a claim we will eventually lose. We support real investment in dual-use Arctic infrastructure, all-domain surveillance, and a permanent Canadian presence in the North — built in genuine partnership with Inuit and Northern Indigenous governments, whose communities are the living foundation of Canadian sovereignty in the region.

The Canadian Armed Forces exist to defend Canada and its people, and they must be properly equipped to do so. But we are wary of a security relationship in which spending targets are dictated from abroad and Canadian soldiers are treated as auxiliaries for the geopolitical projects of others. Pressure from the Pentagon to commit 3.5% of GDP to core defence by 2035 — plus a further 1.5% on infrastructure — should be weighed against the equally urgent needs of our hospitals, our schools, and our research, and decided in Ottawa according to Canada’s interests, not delivered as a quota from Washington. We will invest in genuine defensive capability — protecting our coasts, our airspace, our Arctic, and our infrastructure — while resisting the drift toward open-ended commitments to distant conflicts that do not serve the security of Canadians.

A shared identity, grounded in common laws, common languages, and common values, is not the enemy of this independence. It is its foundation. Sovereignty is not nostalgia for a smaller, more closed country — it is the confidence of a free people who intend to decide their own future, in cooperation with the world but in submission to no one.

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For years, inequality has been growing in our country. Millions of people work hard to provide a good life for themselves and their families. It is they who keep our society running and pay the vast majority of taxes.

We want to revive democratic decision-making, expand democratic participation, and protect personal freedom. Our patriotism is civic. iIt is loyalty to shared laws, shared values, and to one another as citizens, and it is open to all who share that commitment, whatever their origin.

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