Sovereign Canada is a bold and pressing national initiative to restore Canada’s economic independence, innovation leadership and strategic position in an era of global instability. With rising trade coercion, digital and AI disruption, and fractured alliances, Canada must act now with clarity and resolve.
This initiative presents a forward-looking framework for, in the first instance, navigating the US-Canada trade reset, defending against unilateral tariffs and securing our future through sovereign capabilities, including those in energy and critical minerals, digital infrastructure, defence, national procurement, culture and innovation.
This platform brings together legal analysis, industrial strategy and actionable policy tools to ensure Canada is not a bystander but instead is a key architect and builder of a new international system — one anchored in democratic values, trustworthiness and national strength.
Sovereign Canada affirms that resilience is not isolation. Canada’s sovereignty is not about sentiment — it is about prosperity, security, strategy and leadership for our future.
Documents from various thought leaders are available below for policy makers, media and citizens.
We encourage all Canadians to engage on these and other important issues, and for policy makers to consider all options, no matter how challenging. Together we can make the future we want and need.
Briefs for Policymakers:
Focus issues
- Sovereign Canada Strategic Lens
- Sovereign Capabilities for a Low Trust World
- Multilateral Strategies for Canada
- Leveraging Competition Policy as Industrial Policy
- Injecting Expertise and Strategic Capacity Needed to Build the Strongest Economy in the G7
- Critical Minerals for Strategic Leverage and National Security
- Creating a Canadian Digital Graphene Dome
- Capturing Displaced STEM Talent for National Security and Prosperity
- Canada's AI Imperative- A National Industrial Strategy for AI Sovereignty and Global Leadership
- Canada’s Path to Becoming a Tourism Superpower