Look at the hand
we are holding.
Not slogans. Assets most countries on earth would trade almost anything for.
Third in the world, and the cleanest major producer per barrel.
A year. More than half our power is zero-carbon — among the highest per person of any democracy.
The Athabasca Basin runs roughly a hundred times the global average grade. A 1970s-Saudi energy position, inside a stable democracy.
Add two oceans and a land bridge between Asia and Europe, and you have one of the most complete strategic hands any country has ever been dealt. The minerals, the water, the energy, the geography, the people.
Everything. The only thing missing is the decision to use it as one country instead of ten arguing parts.
None of this is a boast. Every line of it is in a government table somebody can check, which is the only reason it is worth saying out loud.
And the part that changes while you read.
Statistics Canada · Bank of Canada