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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 27/01/2026

Karl Clark is a Great Canadian Builder Before the oil sands were a place in northern Alberta where over $500B was spent to unlock the trapped wealth, before they provided jobs to Canadians far and wide, and before they provided billions each year in royalties to government, they were a bog.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 24/01/2026

📥 Between rhetoric and reality All about the Davos speech in this week's newsletter. In your inbox or available here: buildcanada.substack.com/p/the-carney...

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 22/01/2026

Don't Wait to Bring the Best to Canada Top entrepreneurs are the most important resource for building new businesses, developing new technology and growing the economy. These entrepreneurs are globally mobile and countries compete to attract and retain the best.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 21/01/2026

The Keevil Family are Great Canadian Builders Dr. Norman Keevil Sr, born on a Saskatchewan farm, became an expert in geophysics. He pioneered airborne magnetic surveying technology and started Teck Resources, a successful mining company.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 20/01/2026

"The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently. And it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us." 🏗️🇨🇦

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 17/01/2026

📥 Canada in space. Carney in China. All the goings in our latest newsletter. In your inbox or available here: buildcanada.substack.com/p/space-is-t...

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 15/01/2026

Why Companies Won't Invest in Canada Canada’s economic dynamism depends on company formation and investment but in the last decade every metric in this area has been moving in the wrong direction.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 13/01/2026

Jim Pattison is a Great Canadian Builder After minor success selling used cars for others, he made a bet on himself, selling his home and life insurance policy to open up his own Pontiac dealership. 25 years later, Pattison was selling more cars than anyone in Western Canada.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 10/01/2026

📥 What Canadian oil means for global emissions New newsletter in your inbox or available here: buildcanada.substack.com/p/frozen-pipes

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 09/01/2026

Canada used to have an immigration system that was the envy of the world. Our points-based system prioritised based on people's contributions. But in recent years, we've prioritised French speakers over all else. We need to refocus on talent-based immigration: buildcanada.com/memos/talent...

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Great People, Greater Canada: A Talent First Immigration Strategy for Canada

The world's most innovative companies compete for top talent. It's time Canada competed the same way for immigrants.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 07/01/2026

Great to see publications previously critical of Build Canada now recognize the need to build

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 06/01/2026

RC Harris is a Great Canadian Builder The early 1900s were not a good time to be born in Toronto. For every thousand births, 140 children would not live to see their first birthday, a shocking death rate partly caused by poor sanitation and water. Yet by the early 20s, infant mortality would halve.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 20/12/2025

📥 Getting immigration right New newsletter in your inbox and at the link below:

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 17/12/2025

Canada produces world-class research but struggles to turn it into world-class companies. Canadian startups do well in their early stages. But they hit a wall when they try to grow past $100 million in revenue. At that point, the system abandons them.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 16/12/2025

Roy Thomson is a Great Canadian Builder After a string of entrepreneurial failures, Thomson bought the Timmins Daily Press in 1934 with a down payment of just $200. He acquired more and more local newspapers, until he eventually grew into the media empire Thomson Reuters:

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 13/12/2025

📥 Spread the cheer New newsletter in your inbox and at the link below. Special thanks to community member Kyle for this week's photo.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 12/12/2025

Setting a target to become the "Best AI country in the world" is meaningless. AI is a tool — successful adoption will be defined not by quantity of use but by applying that tool to problems with measurable outcomes. www.buildcanada.com/memos/moonsh...

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Shawn Price @shawnprice.com · 10/12/2025

Happy to see @desmog.com reporting that @liberalca.bsky.social is listening to quality policy ideas and adopting them. In this case, from @buildcanada.com Turns out good ideas cross partisan lines and come from within and outside government Terrific endorsement 🏗️🇨🇦 www.desmog.com/2025/12/08/m...

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Mark Carney Took Speech Ideas From Billionaire-Founded ‘Build Canada’

The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that it’s great to see its ideas “get taken up by government.”

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 10/12/2025

Sir Sandford Fleming is a Great Canadian Builder Every time you check the time, you can thank Fleming for creating Standard Time. Before, every town kept its own local time. As the chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, it was impossible to keep systems on time. So he invented time zones.

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Shawn Price @shawnprice.com · 09/12/2025

A year ago I struggled to imagine 🇨🇦 expressing the will, urgency, or need to prepare itself for what will happen over the the next few years. @buildcanada.com has created that movement. And this memo by @ddebow.bsky.social perfectly captures how we can get there.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 09/12/2025

Canada's prosperity depends on productivity growth but in recent years the country has been stagnant. Without productivity gains, Canada will fall behind economically. AI offers a chance to boost output across every sector but only if the government creates an environment that encourages adoption.

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An AI Strategy to Build Canadian Prosperity

Productivity is the path to prosperity. AI is a general purpose technology that could help deliver productivity gains across every sector—but only if Canada acts with urgency.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 06/12/2025

📥 Another of Trudeau's inner circle has resigned, and what it means for our climate policy New newsletter in your inbox or available here: buildcanada.substack.com/p/clarity-on...

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 02/12/2025

Heather Reisman is a Great Canadian Builder She founded Indigo and set out to create something more than just a retail chain. It ultimately combined with Chapters to become a national bookseller.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 29/11/2025

📥 When pipe dreams become possible New newsletter in your inbox and at the link below:

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 28/11/2025

📣 The merch store is open Tees, zips, socks. With a brand new burgundy quarter zip. While supplies last. Order by Dec 11 to get in time for Christmas. shop.buildcanada.com

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 26/11/2025

Literacy — the ability to read and write — has arguably been the single most important tool for creating prosperity over the last several hundred years.

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Build Canada's Literacy Foundation

A fifth of Canadians are functionally illiterate. This has massive social impacts and costs Canada $67 billion in productivity.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 25/11/2025

George Cohon is a Great Canadian Builder At 30 years old, he risked it all and moved from Chicago to Toronto to bring McDonalds to Canada. He was adamant that McDonalds couldn't just be an American import – it had to feel Canadian. So,

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 22/11/2025

📥 Why "choosing your friends wisely" is tricky for Canada New newsletter in your inbox and at the link below

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 18/11/2025

Diana Matheson is a Great Canadian Builder An accomplished player in her own right who went on to create the Northern Super League (NSL). From the Vancouver Rise to AFC Toronto, it's given hundreds of women a platform to compete and thousands the opportunity to watch great games of soccer.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 17/11/2025

We'll find out this week how serious we as a country are at breaking down internal trade barriers. It's estimated that breaking down barriers that make it harder for goods and services to be sold from one province to another can lead to $200B or 7.9% of GDP growth.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 15/11/2025

📥 Will Canada finally get free trade? New newsletter in your inbox or at the link below

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 14/11/2025

How the budget scores on Civic Engagement & Pride We didn't see anything on the budget on this. No national year of service nor incentives to create pro-Canada programming. Would you have wanted to see it?

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 14/11/2025

How the Budget scores on Industrial & Advanced Manufacturing The budget announced intentions to scale up the Canadian Photonic Fabrication Centre – a world leader in producing compound semiconductors. We're eager to hear what the plans are here.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 13/11/2025

How the Budget scores on Housing The budget delivered watered down housing commitments, if they were included at all.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 13/11/2025

How did the Budget score on Transportation, Infrastructure & Trade We're encouraged to see the budget recognize that there needs to be more telecom competition in Canada. However, our memo calls for more drastic measures to truly break up the entrenched oligopoly.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 12/11/2025

How the Budget scores on Defence Major investments to defence which will allow Canada to finally meet its NATO target. There's also recognition that we have a procurement problem and it takes far too long to get equipment and technology.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 11/11/2025

How the Budget scores on Digital Innovation We're delighted to see our memo on streamlining SRED applications included in the budget. SRED is the biggest R&D program, yet the application is so complex many companies hire external consultants to fill it in. We're eager to see these changes go live.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 11/11/2025

How the Budget scores on Banking & Fiscal Policy We're encouraged to see target timelines for open banking in the budget, something our memo called for. We're also happy to see our memo to create a legislative framework for stablecoins included as well.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 11/11/2025

On this Remembrance Day, Cluny Macpherson is our Great Canadian Builder When gas attacks started being used in WWI, Cluny invented the Hypo Helmet – worn over the head and made of fabric capable of absorbing the deadly chlorine.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 10/11/2025

"These were men who thought the term 'government efficiency' was an oxymoron so they did things themselves" Thanks to everyone who came out to the book launch of The Dollar a Year Men by Allan Levine. And a special thank you to Shane Parrish for hosting.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 10/11/2025

How the Budget scores on Government Transformation

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 10/11/2025

How the Budget scores on Talent & Immigration

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 08/11/2025

📥 A normal budget for abnormal times New newsletter in your inbox or available here: buildcanada.substack.com/p/sacrifices...

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 07/11/2025

Students, this is your movement too. Build Canada is coming to a campus near you 🇨🇦 Join Farhan Thawar & Melody Kuo at the University of Toronto on Nov 13, and Lucy Hargreaves & Dr. Colin Mang at McMaster on Nov 20 as they talk about how you can build the future of Canada.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 05/11/2025

From the start of this year, Build Canada has shared bold policy ideas to grow our economy. From finance to government transformation, housing to immigration, the message has been clear: Canada needs to cut wasteful spending, reduce friction for builders, and increase competitiveness.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 03/11/2025

The budget is tomorrow. This will be a telling moment of the priorities of our government, and the future of our country. Over the past 2 weeks, we’ve resurfaced bold policy ideas – from finance to government transformation, housing to immigration – that could meaningfully grow our country.

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 03/11/2025

C. D. Howe is a Great Canadian Builder When WWII began, Canada had almost no industrial war capacity. Howe set up the Crown Corporation model, which allowed Canada to rapidly ramp up its manufacturing, mining, and state capacity. buildcanada.com/en/great-canadian-builders/c-d-howe

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C. D. Howe | Great Canadian Builders

The Minister Who Built Modern Canada

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 02/11/2025

The budget is 2 DAYS AWAY. While there have been some announcements to reduce taxes on homes, we'd like to see more substantial changes to bring housing affordability. www.buildcanada.com/en/memos/hou...

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buildcanada.com @buildcanada.com · 01/11/2025

The budget is 3 DAYS AWAY. We'd like to see advancements on stablecoins for Canada. www.buildcanada.com/memos/stable...

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