Secure

The world is increasingly dangerous and divided. Now, more than ever, we need to secure Canadian sovereignty by strengthening our military, making our communities more resilient, and protecting ourselves against growing threats, including in a warming Arctic where we must work in collaboration with Arctic and Northern Indigenous Peoples so that we are prepared to face a hostile Russia or emboldened China.

There are brave women and men across this country who have put up their hands to serve. We will make sure that they have what they need to meet this moment and give them the support their commitment deserves. We must invest in our ability to shape the world we live in, because a peaceful, prosperous world is one where Canada thrives.

We will be vigilant against foreign interference in our democracy and protect the security and sovereignty of Canada. A Mark Carney-led government will keep Canada strong and free.

Canada is a sovereign nation. But in 2025, the sovereignty that we have secured and defended is under threat. We will stand up for Canada.

We will rebuild our defence capacity, we will rearm the Canadian Armed Forces, and we will invest in Canadian defence companies. We will strengthen our security, build stronger links with our partners in Europe and Asia, and invest in the North. We will build our defence industry to keep it resilient and benefit our economy. Most importantly, we will put Canadians first by supporting our people and making the Canadian Armed Forces a lifelong career.

Our investments will be spent wisely and effectively to put Canada on track to exceed our NATO defence spending target before 2030. This when, ten years ago, under a Conservative government, defence spending was less than 1% of GDP. We will increase investments significantly and quickly to protect Canada. Now, more than ever, we need to reaffirm our sovereignty and invest in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Rebuild the Canadian Armed Forces

The members of our Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) have put up their hands to defend our sovereignty, volunteering to put themselves in harm’s way to protect Canadians. We ask a lot of our military. In recognition of their service, we need to take better care of them and their families. We will fix these shortcomings and invest to make the CAF one of the best workplaces in the country, which also means paying our serving members a wage that reflects the sacrifices they make for our country.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Give a pay raise to CAF members to recognize that we are asking more of them as Canada steps up to defend our sovereignty.
• Give better support to our CAF members, through investments in housing, health care, and child care. This means rapidly increasing the stock of high-quality housing on bases across the country and ensuring access to primary child care and health care – including mental health supports – for serving members and their families.
• Modernize our recruitment process, including by streamlining security clearances and applying online, so that more applicants can get trained, faster. Every year, thousands of Canadians try to join the CAF, but encounter frustrating barriers and a slow process, leading to a recruitment rate of less than 10%. To solve our personnel crisis, we need to make it easier for high-quality candidates to enter service more quickly.
• Address the external recommendations to combat military sexual misconduct. Sexual misconduct has absolutely no place in the Canadian Armed Forces. Like all Canadians, members of the Canadian Armed Forces must have a safe workplace.

Rearm

In a world of growing threats, Canada must be equipped to detect and deter, those who would attack our sovereignty. To do this, we will need to procure new equipment and technology for our Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. We have a plan to meet our NATO commitments and ensure that the CAF has the equipment they need to defend our sovereignty. That means dozens of new investments in equipment for our military, including foundational investments.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Expand our ability to monitor our coastlines and secure Canada’s Arctic, including with new submarines for the Royal Canadian Navy and additional heavy icebreakers, building on our commitment to all orders underway through the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
• Expand our fleet of aerial and underwater drones to build a persistent presence in the air and sea, including persistent surveillance to protect against threats in the Arctic and at our border. We will work to build Canadian industry through defence partnerships and by leveraging domestic innovations.
• Buy Canadian-made airborne early warning and control aircraft, supporting our domestic aerospace industry and accelerating the procurement process.
• Support the Canadian Army with significant new investments, such as new self-propelled artillery systems and ground-based air defence capabilities so that the CAF have the capacity to operate in today’s context.
• Give the Canadian Coast Guard a new mandate and the right equipment to conduct maritime surveillance operations to secure our coasts. Our Coast Guard carries out important work, but we need to update their mission to protect our sovereignty and counter criminal activity, such as drug trafficking. Expanding the reach and abilities of the Canadian Coast Guard will also mean integrating them into Canada’s NATO defence capabilities.
• Invest in our Reserves and Canadian Rangers to give them the equipment they need to continue protecting our sovereignty and conduct domestic disaster responses that directly helps Canadians.

Reinvest

We must reinvest in our Canadian defence industries, taking advantage of technologies that have both military and civilian uses. We must also reform the way Canada procures for its defence so that we do not suffer undue delays in equipment deliveries and are not giving money to countries that attack our sovereignty. Our procurement system is too slow and out of date; we can no longer afford to treat defence procurement like other parts of the government.

Sovereignty is not just about new equipment, it means leveraging Canadian innovation to serve as a force multiplier, empowering our military to achieve greater operational impact than our adversaries. This approach doesn’t just strengthen our defence posture, it creates highly skilled jobs, spurs domestic innovation, and positions Canada as a leader in emerging defence technologies.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Establish the Bureau of Research, Engineering and Advanced Leadership in Science (BOREALIS) to ensure the Canadian Armed Forces and Communications Security Establishment have the made-in-Canada innovation solutions they need in areas such as AI, quantum computing, cybersecurity, and other advanced research and technology.
• Overhaul defence procurement to better meet our needs and the urgency of the moment by:
• Establishing a new Defence Procurement Agency.
• Amending legislation and regulations as required, including taking steps to expand risk-based approaches to approvals, to centralize expertise from across government and streamline the way we buy equipment for the military.
• Buying Canadian whenever possible and prioritizing Canadian raw materials such as steel, aluminum and critical minerals.
• Boosting Canada’s domestic defence industries and production as we build security relationships with our partners. That includes advancing Canada’s involvement in the ReArm Europe Plan in support of transatlantic security, and prioritizing investment here in Canada – with every dollar spent wisely and effectively.

We can never take sovereignty and security in the Arctic for granted. With our sovereignty under threat, it is time to work with Indigenous and Northern partners to strengthen the North, to deter incursions, and to strengthen our presence in the Arctic. To keep all of Canada strong and free.

We must take a smarter approach to building infrastructure in the North. For too long, we’ve built separate infrastructure for communities and the military. To invest smartly, we need to prioritize projects that defend the Arctic just as much as they help Northerners, particularly Indigenous Peoples. This work can only proceed in full partnership with Arctic and Northern Indigenous Peoples.

The North faces existential threats as countries try to take advantage of new shipping routes opened by climate change, exploit our critical minerals, and encroach on our borders. We will keep Canada strong, free, and sovereign.

That means that when we build a new airstrip in the Arctic, fighter jets can take off to patrol our airspace while cargo planes land with food and supplies for remote communities. When we build new deepwater ports to support our destroyers patrolling Northern waters, we will build new trade routes for cargo ships that export Canadian goods.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Work closely with Arctic and Northern Indigenous leadership as partners, in defence and security investments that respect their rights, incorporate traditional knowledge, and ensure community priorities are reflected, especially on targeted investments in dual-use infrastructure such as airstrips and other critical infrastructure.
• Strengthen the presence of Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic to protect the sovereignty of our land, air, and sea, including through a network of deepwater ports that will allow us to protect the Northwest Passage year-round.
• Move forward to detect and deter early warning radar coverage of threats to the Arctic by working with partners in Australia to develop advanced Over-the-Horizon Radar. This will also help deepen our defence and trade ties with Australia.
• Invest in Northern infrastructure, including a new hydroelectricity project and other energy projects, so that people have access to safe, reliable energy; improve housing stock, accelerate housing development, and meet growing housing demand. We will also invest in new port projects, railways, airstrips, and highways, all with dual-use capabilities. This work will be undertaken with Arctic and Northern Indigenous partners.
• Forge a new Canada-Europe Arctic security cooperation agreement that deepens ties in the North in recognition of the rapidly shifting security landscape.
• Expand our fleet of aerial and underwater drones – as well as investments in Canadian satellite technology – to build a persistent presence across the North to monitor our vast landscape and the world’s longest coastline by investing in made-in-Canada innovations.

Canadian Veterans stood up to defend our sovereignty. After completing their service, Veterans face unique challenges, with almost half reporting difficulties in transitioning to civilian life. We must recognize the sacrifices that they and their families have made to keep our country strong and free. We owe the more than 460,000 Veterans living in Canada so much; the least we can do is make sure that they have the support they need and that their sacrifices are honoured.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Improve health services and support for women Veterans’ health by launching a health research study on the experience of women Veterans to ensure proper data is collected so that its service delivery can capture the increase of women Veterans transitioning to civilian life and ultimately improve their health outcomes.
• Modernize and streamline the benefits system, to deliver faster decisions, shorter wait times, and less paperwork so that Veterans and their families get the support they need sooner and more easily.
• Make it easier for Veterans to get jobs by working with provinces and territories to streamline the recognition of military trade credentials in the civilian world, so that qualified Veterans do not needlessly retrain once they leave the military. We will also work to make it easier to maintain a security clearance when necessary after retirement so Veterans can continue contributing to the protection of Canadian sovereignty.
• Expand recognition of service by reviewing the designation of certain military missions, including in the Persian Gulf, so that Veterans’ sacrifices in conflict zones are properly recognized. This would be done in consultation with Veterans groups, CAF, and Veterans Affairs Canada to ensure we develop clear recognition for their service.
• Expand culturally relevant services for Indigenous Veterans in consultation with First Nation, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Indigenous Peoples put up their hands to join Canada’s military at particularly high rates.
• Preserve the National Field of Honour through work with the Last Post Fund to assume ownership of the National Field of Honour in Montreal, so that it remains an appropriate and respectful final resting place for Veterans.

Our workers and businesses are under threat from America’s unjustified trade war. It is an attempt to weaken our economy in a misguided belief that they can dominate the Canadian economy. We will reject any attempt to weaken us, wear us down, divide us, or own us. Our response will always be to fight, to protect our workers and industries, and to build.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Respond to existing U.S. tariffs on our economy for as long as is necessary while also ensuring that we are safeguarding Canadian industry from the threat of trade diversion. Every dollar raised from these tariffs will support Canadian workers and businesses affected by the trade war.
• Create a $2 billion Strategic Response Fund to boost our auto sector’s competitiveness, protect manufacturing jobs, support workers to upskill their expertise in the industry, and build a fortified Canadian supply chain – from raw materials to finished vehicles.
• Build an “All-in-Canada” network for auto manufacturing component parts. With this network, we will work with industry to build more car parts in Canada, limit those parts crossing the border during production, and attract investment into our own industry.
• Maximize Canada’s steel, aluminum, and critical minerals – from exploration to battery production – to seize this economic opportunity, create higher-paying jobs, and build the strongest economy in the G7.
• Safeguard our economy and our values and protect Canada from attempts to buy up our businesses, our core public health care, intellectual property, critical minerals and other resources by strengthening the Investment Canada Act. We will make more transactions reviewable, as well as modernizing standards to capture manipulative transaction models – including by reviewing the potential impacts to Canada’s data sovereignty. We will also make clear that any transactions involving core infrastructure in our public health system, such as long-term care facilities and family health practices, will be subject to stringent review and protection under the Act.

Our farmers and fishermen and women do hard work, good work. It’s the backbone of so many of our rural and coastal communities. This is a time of immense upheaval – from Trump’s tariffs, trade wars, and the significant impact of climate change. Farmers, fishers, and others who help put food on Canadians plates are seeing the impacts of climate change firsthand and it’s important that we work together to support sustainable and resilient practices.

Food security is about more than just ensuring there is enough food on our plates, it’s also about protecting Canada’s economic sovereignty. When Canadians are worried about inflation and their financial security, it’s important that we make sure food prices are in reach for all. It’s about every family across Canada, including in the North, having confidence that they have access to fresh, nutritious, and affordable food. And making sure that, while America attempts to weaken our economy, Canadians can know that they are supporting our farmers, fishers, and food producers.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Strengthen Canada’s food security by investing in greenhouses, hydroponics, and other controlled environment agriculture that allow us to grow more types of food, here at home. We will work with the private sector to protect Canadian food security.
• Work to increase the resilience of food supply chains and support innovation [more].
• Amend the mandates of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Pest Management Regulatory Agency to ensure they consider food security and the cost of food in all their regulatory decisions without compromising on health and safety. Currently, these important agencies only look at their respective mandates through a health and safety lens.
• Direct the Canada Infrastructure Bank to prioritize investments in agriculture, fisheries, agri-food, and the food supply chain, particularly those that improve food security and reduce the cost of food for Canadian families, unlocking potentially billions in investment for the sector.
• Help Canadian farmers get their goods to market at low cost, particularly in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. We will do this by extending the Extended Railway Interswitching pilot by three years. As part of our commitment to support Canadian workers, we will explore all options to exclude non-Canadian railways from being included in this project.
• Support modern water management practices and safeguard local water resources as part of the freshwater action plan [more].

Farmers and Agri food

Our farmers and the workers and businesses that feed Canadians have faced Trump’s uncertainty before. We need this industry to be strong to protect food security in Canada.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Keep Canada’s supply management off the table in any negotiations with the U.S. We will protect Canada’s commitment to supply management and supply-managed sectors, including dairy, poultry, and eggs. This will protect Canadian jobs, insulate these segments of our food supply from fluctuations in production costs, and guarantee Canadian farmers a minimum price for their products.
• Make permanent the doubling of revenue protection for farmers under the AgriStability Program, from $3 million to $6 million per farm, in the case of significant revenue drops caused by tariffs, extreme weather events, and other external shocks.
• Build more domestic processing capacity, including food processing capacity in rural and remote areas, with a new $200 million Domestic Food Processing Fund, applicable to both agricultural and fisheries products. This could include processing milk into baby formula.
• Increase support for farmers, ranchers, and producers, including in the fish and seafood sectors, to access new markets for their food products with an additional $30 million in the AgriMarketing Program. This will build on recent successes, including the recent opening of new Agri-Food Offices abroad, which helps our farmers access new markets and diversify away from the United States.
• Increase the support for farmers and ranchers to buy more efficient farm equipment. This will support farmers in growing their businesses and hiring more workers, while reducing emissions and improving resiliency to the effects of climate change and extreme weather events.
• Double the loan guarantee limit, from $500,000 to $1 million, of the Canadian Agricultural Loans Act Program and expand terms to 20 years. This will help the next generation of young farmers start their own farms by facilitating the purchase of land, the construction or improvement of farm infrastructure, the purchase or repair of equipment, and more.
• Work with the National School Food Program and provinces and territories to prioritize the purchasing of Canadian food products as much as possible, supporting our farmers and ensuring Canadian kids have access to local, fresh food grown and caught right here in Canada [more].
• Work with the Canada Food Inspection Agency to ensure mutual recognition of food safety standards with reliable trading partners. This will cut red tape to accelerate access to new technology approvals without compromising health and safety.

Fishers

On the shores of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, there are communities of fishermen and women with deep roots. We need to protect their livelihoods, including from the threat of tariffs, and the fish and oceans they rely on.

Sustainable, secure, innovative fishing is essential for Canadian fishermen and women to feed the world, pass their work on for new generations, and for us to build a strong economy now.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Invest an additional $250 million in the repair and maintenance of small craft harbours. These harbours are the backbone of the fishing industry, especially in Atlantic Canada, and are the homebase for many of Canada’s fisheries. Tackling much needed repairs and improvements will protect livelihoods, and help these small fisheries grow.
• Help our fisheries respond to tariffs and reduce the risk involved in expanding to new markets by creating a new Arctic Fisheries Fund, and revamping the Atlantic Fisheries Fund, the Quebec Fisheries Fund, and the British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund, increasing funding by 20% for each. This new funding will help our fishermen and women face tariff risks including on developing new export markets, new product development and promoting Canadian seafood for dinner tables here at home. Funding will also drive innovation, sustainability, and productivity so that our industry is set up for long-term growth.
• Protect marine life and clean up our shores. Ghost gear (lost or abandoned fishing equipment) traps and kills fish, marine mammals, and seabirds, damages sensitive habitats, and litters coastlines. We will work to clean up ghost gear through new innovations, such as AI-powered data analysis and satellite imagery, GPS-enabled buoys, RFID tags, and acoustic sensors to retrieve ghost gear in real time. These innovations will reduce harm to marine habitats, protect fish stocks, and keep fishermen and women safe.

Crime and violence are rising in our neighbourhoods and online. An increase in violent crime, including car theft and home invasion, is making Canadians less and less safe in their daily lives. Canadians are being harassed at their places of worship and on the way to school. Everyone must feel safe in their communities, including our kids. We need to take action to prevent crime before it starts, give law enforcement the tools they need to disrupt it, and hold those who commit crimes accountable. A strong Canada means strong protections in our communities and a Criminal Code which is responsive to emerging issues and protects victims of crime and keeps our kids safe.

Responsible Gun Control

A serious plan to keep our communities safe starts with responsible action to keep guns off our streets. We will continue to take action to keep assault-style firearms out of our communities, all while respecting the longstanding traditions of hunting, including among Indigenous Peoples, and sport shooting.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Continue to implement an efficient gun buyback program for assault-style firearms.
• Legislate a pre-authorization system that ensures that the classification of new firearm models entering the market is determined by the RCMP and not the gun industry.
• Automatically revoke gun licences for individuals convicted of violent offences, particularly those convicted of intimate partner violence offences, and those subject to protection orders.
• Increase capacity to track down guns used in crimes so we can catch those responsible by investing in the capacity of the RCMP’s National Forensic Laboratories in Ottawa and Surrey, as well as the Saskatchewan Ballistics Laboratory.
• Toughen oversight of firearms licensing and strengthen the enforcement of yellow and red flag requirements by bolstering the capacity of Provincial Chief Firearms Officers to fulfill their obligations.

Resilient, Well-equipped Frontline Workers

New threats to our safety and sovereignty are emerging every day. Our security agencies keep us safe from these threats, but they need to be well resourced to respond to evolving threats and new realities.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• End drug and human trafficking in our communities and boost resources to fight modern threats, such as foreign interference, transnational repression, and cybercrime. We will also recruit and train 1000 more RCMP personnel, establish a new RCMP academy within Depot, and increase pay for cadet recruits.
• Crack down on drugs, including fentanyl and its precursors, illegal guns, and stop gangs from smuggling stolen cars out of the country. We will train 1000 new Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers. In addition, to secure our borders, we will stand up additional border scanners, drones, and new K-9 teams, to target more suspicious shipments at our land borders, ports, and railyards.
• Put those profiting from fentanyl behind bars by prosecuting more complex drug trafficking and organized crime offences. We will invest in the Public Prosecution Services of Canada so that they can do so.
• Amend the Canada Post Corporation Act to allow police to search for and seize fentanyl and other contraband in Canada Post mail with a general warrant.
• Support the health, including mental health, of our first responders by doubling our collaboration with the Canadian Institute of Health Research, and the Canadian Institute of Public Safety Research and Treatment.
• Amend the Public Service Superannuation Act to expand early retirement eligibility, also known as “25 and out” for frontline employees including firefighters, paramedics, correctional service employees, border services officers, Parliamentary protection officers, and search and rescue.

Safe at Home

Every Canadian should feel safe in their community, especially in their home. We will act decisively to strengthen the Criminal Code and move aggressively to protect victims by making bail laws stricter for violent and organized crime, home invasion, car theft, and human trafficking.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Make it harder to get bail for those charged with violent car theft, car theft for a criminal organization, home invasion, and certain human trafficking and smuggling offences by establishing a reverse onus for these crimes.
• Require the court to prohibit possession of firearms or weapons when releasing someone charged with a violent offence or any offence involving a criminal organization.
• Toughen sentencing guidelines so they are stricter for repeat offenders of car theft, as well as violent and organized crimes. We will:
• Direct courts to primarily consider denunciation and deterrence when sentencing repeat car thieves or home invasion offenders.
• Allow for consecutive sentencing for car theft with violence or car theft involving a criminal organization on top of home invasion offences if applicable, or any other offences the person is subject to.
• Allow for consecutive sentencing for serious and violent offences.

• Protect victims of sexual violence and intimate partner violence by:
• Making murder motivated by hate a constructive first-degree offence, including femicide.
• Make it a criminal offence to distribute non-consensual sexual deepfakes.
• Increase penalties for the distribution of intimate images without consent and sexual assault on summary conviction.

Keeping Children Safe

Our children are growing up in a world with threats that are very different, even compared to a decade ago. New technologies are changing the way they interact with the world, and criminal organizations are trying to exploit them. We need to do more to protect our kids.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Introduce legislation to protect children from horrific crimes including online sexploitation and extortion and give law enforcement and prosecutors the tools to stop these crimes and bring perpetrators to justice.
• Provide new funding to the Canadian Center for Child Protection in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
• Tighten laws to crack down on child-luring including by raising the maximum sentence.
• Amend the Mandatory Reporting Act to extend the period of preservation of data related to a child sexual offence and extend the limitation period for the prosecution of an offence under that Act.
• Prevent crime before it starts by extending the Building Safer Communities Fund, and prioritizing approaches to steer youth away from criminal activity. This fund will also support Indigenous-led community safety priorities.

Protecting Our Communities

We have seen a horrifying rise in hate, and hate-related crimes, in our communities. The numerous incidents of Antisemitism and Islamophobia are deeply troubling. And we see an ongoing rise of homophobia and transphobia. In Canada, no one should feel afraid because of who they are or how they worship.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Introduce legislation to make it a criminal offence to intentionally and willfully obstruct access to any place of worship, schools, and community centres.
• Make it a criminal offence to intentionally and willfully intimidate or threaten those attending services at these locations.
• Protect the safety of 2SLGBTQI+ people by maintaining support for Fierté Canada Pride in administering funding for security needs at Pride festivals across the country.
• Address the rise of hate by implementing Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate.
• Significantly increase the annual budget of the Canada Community Security Program in order to help protect vulnerable communities and places of worship.

Canada is a nation of values. We champion human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. These values are the basis of the 80 years of peace and prosperity that saw Canada grow and take its place in the world. Today, these values are under threat, including from our neighbours to the south who are attacking our sovereignty, and violating their trade agreements to wage economic war that threatens our way of life. It was America that once declared itself a shining city on a hill, but today it is casting a shadow. We will step out from behind that shadow to defend our sovereignty and our values around the world.

It was a Canadian who drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was a Canadian who came up with the concept of a UN peacekeeping force. In this crisis, we will not forget what Canada stands for – a world where everyone can live with equal rights, dignity, and respect. Pierre Poilievre has said that he will make “massive cuts” to Canada’s foreign aid. Liberals will continue to stand behind the institutions that support Canadian values and our global stability, including the UN and its agencies.

We must never forget that our sovereignty, security, and prosperity are tied to broader global stability. At a time of rising global conflict and authoritarianism, there are those who are stepping back from global leadership. Canada believes in open cooperation, in the free flow of good services and ideas.

If the United States no longer wants to lead, Canada will.

A Mark Carney-led government will:

• Restore Canada’s diplomatic presence abroad through a new, full foreign policy. The last time Canada issued a full foreign policy was in 2005 – the world is immensely different today than it was then. The intention is to deploy more Canadian diplomats and officials abroad, to expand our trade, and to restore Canadian leadership. We will also issue a complementary national security review.
• Build alliances to protect our sovereignty including work to build a security and economic partnership with our Nordic partners to promote Arctic security, Canadian sovereignty, and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. This will build on our close relationships, and we will continue to leverage our close relationships with the Commonwealth and La Francophonie to present a united front against threats to sovereignty around the globe.
• Defend our values of peace and stability by continuing to support Ukraine and Ukrainians including: working to bring home Ukrainian children stolen by Russia; building on Canadian leadership to seize Russian sovereign assets and using them to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction; and, if needed, build on our peacekeeping heritage and step up to guarantee Ukraine’s security.
• Expand FinDev’s lending capacity to support the private sector in low-income and emerging economies by investing in infrastructure that reduces emissions, addresses global famine and food insecurity, and closes economic development gaps.
• Protect Canada’s proud tradition of supporting the poorest and most vulnerable in times of crisis by maintaining our international humanitarian assistance budget at no less than $800 million per year.
• Assert Canada’s leadership in supporting women and girls by protecting funding for sexual and reproductive health care and rights, education, and combatting child marriage. At a time when women’s rights are under threat and reproductive rights are being rolled back at a shocking rate, we will ensure that our foreign assistance is gender responsive and helps the poorest and most vulnerable.
• Add additional funding for the LGBTQI+ International Assistance Program to provide support for LGBTQI+ individuals facing persecution abroad, promote global equality, and partner with international organizations. We will also expand the Rainbow Refugee Assistance Partnership.
• Continue our international climate finance program to focus on bringing in more private capital into helping developing economies reach their climate goals, while supporting the poorest and most vulnerable to adapt to the effects of climate change.
• Leverage Canadian expertise to solve global problems – including leveraging our tech ecosystem – with increased funding to accelerate progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Use Canada’s G7 Presidency to catalyze action in defence of our values, including working to protect the rules-based international order from those who want to destroy it.