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International trade platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal
  • Open a $25B export credit facility to support Canadian businesses expand to new markets abroad, with financing to help other countries procure Canadian goods and services

    "Open a $25 billion export credit facility to support Canadian businesses as they expand into new markets. This program offers financing to help other countries procure Canadian goods and services, with similar programs having facilitated the sale of potash to Bangladesh and water bombers to the European Union." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Create a $5B fund to build trade infrastructure such as ports, railroads, inland terminals, airports, and highways

    "We will inject $5 billion into a new Trade Diversification Corridor Fund, to build the infrastructure that will help diversify our trade partners, create good jobs and drive economic growth. This fund will accelerate nation-building projects at ports, railroads, inland terminals, airports, and highways. This will build one Canadian economy and diversify our trade away from the United States." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14

  • Authorise Canadian ports to cooperate to maximise efficiencies

    "Authorize Canadian ports to cooperate instead of compete, in order to maximize efficiencies by leveraging comparative advantages." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14

  • Provide $20M/year more to the CanExport programme, and pivot it to focus on diversifying from the United States

    "Help Canadian businesses diversify their markets by expanding the CanExport program and pivoting it to focus on diversifying from the United States and fully take advantage of our existing trade deals, such as CETA and CPTPP." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Pursue new trade deals with MERCOSUR and ASEAN

    "Pursue new trade deals with MERCOSUR and ASEAN so that Canadian businesses can access markets worth $9 trillion combined." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Update Special Import Measures Act, especially Canada's trade remedy tools in situations of circumvention or diversion

    "Modernize Canada’s Special Import Measures Act to respond to the new international trade reality, particularly to update Canada’s trade remedy tools in situations of circumvention or diversion, including legislating express timelines for safeguard actions." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

Conservative
  • Upgrade the Port of Churchill for resource exports, and extend the shipping season

    "Upgrade the Port of Churchill to open another door to export Canadian resources to the world." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17

  • Reform borrowing caps for ports, pre-authorise future development zones, explore container shipping on the Great Lakes, and review the hours of work regulations for smaller ports

    "Fixing our ports by streamlining regulations and permitting, reforming borrowing caps, pre-authorizing future development zones, exploring container shipping on the Great Lakes, extending the shipping season at the Port of Churchill, and reviewing the hours of work regulations for smaller ports." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Pursue a CANZUK free trade and mobility agreement

    "Pursue a CANZUK free trade and mobility agreement with the UK, Australia, and New Zealand." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

Bloc
  • Exiger une participation québécoise sélectionnée par le Québec à la table de négociations de tout accord commercial
  • Lutter contre l’importation de marchandises, entre autres dans le « fast fashion », issues du travail forcé

    Le Bloc luttera contre l’importation de marchandises,

    entre autres dans le « fast fashion », issues du travail

    forcé, notamment celui des Ouïghours dans le

    cadre d’un génocide perpétré par la Chine.

  • Préconiser le principe de précaution dans l’homologation d’additifs, colorants, pesticides, engrais ou OGM afin de protéger l’entrée de nos exportations sur un marché européen plus sévère
  • Pousser Ottawa à revoir son principe d’équivalence, qui permet aux Américains d’exporter leurs produits au Canada alors qu’ils contiennent des additifs, des pesticides ou d’autres éléments qui sont interdits au Canada
  • Interdire les exportations canadiennes de charbon thermique
  • Exiger un ajustement carbone à la frontière

    Le Bloc Québécois exigera une participation québécoise sélectionnée par le Québec pour représenter nos intérêts à la table de négociations de tout accord commercial.

  • Mettre fin à l’invitation fédérale au gaspillage en vertu de laquelle toute entreprise qui détruit des biens importés invendus est compensée pour ses frais de douane alors qu’une entreprise en faisant don à un OBNL doit assumer toutes ses pertes
  • Pousser le fédéral à mieux outiller les entreprises afin qu’elles profitent davantage des débouchés offerts par les accords de libreéchange avec l’Europe et la zone Pacifique
  • Exiger que les sommes attribuées par l’entremise d’Exportation et développement Canada (EDC) fassent l’objet de plus d’imputabilité politique
We don't have any NDP policies on International trade.
We don't have any Green policies on International trade.

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