My fellow Canadians,

Tonight, we begin the work of building a Canada that is sovereign, prosperous, and prepared for the next century.

For too long, our country has been held back by fragmentation — of jurisdiction, of approvals, of vision.
We have allowed our geography to divide us instead of unite us.
We have allowed our potential to be constrained by systems that were never designed for a nation of our scale.

That ends tonight.

Today, we launch the Canada 2100 Operating Charter — a national framework that secures our sovereignty, strengthens our economy, and builds prosperity for generations.

This Charter rests on five pillars.

First: Fiscal discipline.
We will cap federal debt at ten percent of GDP in normal times, and twenty percent only by national referendum.
We will run structural surpluses.
And we will invest half of those surpluses into a Sovereign Wealth Fund that will grow into one of the largest national endowments on Earth.

Second: A Sovereign Wealth Fund for all Canadians.
This fund will reach into the trillions.
Its income will support our defence, our infrastructure, and — in time — lower taxes and a national dividend.

Third: Four national corridors — each with pipelines at their core.
A West Corridor that links the Pacific to the Arctic with rail, transmission, SMRs, and twin oil and gas pipelines.
A Central Corridor that powers our manufacturing heartland with secure feedstock pipelines and high‑speed rail.
An Atlantic Corridor that connects our energy and shipbuilding industries to the world.
And an Arctic Corridor — six primary hubs and one redundant — that secures our northern sovereignty with SMRs, pipelines, ports, and icebreakers.

These corridors will be governed by Indigenous and Crown partners together, with clear mandates, clear timelines, and clear accountability.

Fourth: A merit‑driven state.
Every regulator, every corridor authority, every procurement agency will be evaluated on outcomes — on‑time delivery, cost control, throughput, readiness, and partnership.
Performance will be rewarded.
Failure will have consequences.

Fifth: A sovereign energy and industrial strategy.
We will build pipelines, SMRs, hydro, gas, LNG, petrochemicals, and transmission because Canada needs abundant, reliable, low‑cost energy to power a value‑added economy.
We will refine our minerals, manufacture our components, and export finished products to the world.

And we will do all of this with Indigenous nations as full partners — in governance, in equity, and in stewardship.

My friends, this is not a plan for the next election.
It is a plan for the next century.

Tonight, we choose sovereignty.
Tonight, we choose prosperity.
Tonight, we choose the long arc.

Let us begin.