What Canada is building: LNG, nuclear, critical minerals, ports and corridors on the Major Projects list, and where a foreign company fits
Most of what makes Canada interesting right now is not in the headlines abroad. It is a list of projects with names, places and proponents, and every one of them buys from somebody.
The short answer
- The first tranche in September 2025 represented about CAD 60 billion: LNG Canada Phase 2, Darlington new nuclear, the Contrecoeur terminal, the McIlvenna Bay copper mine and the Red Chris expansion, with a critical minerals strategy.
- Later tranches added Ksi Lisims LNG, Canada Nickel's Crawford, Nouveau Monde Graphite, the Sisson tungsten mine, Roberts Bank Terminal 2, the Labrador Trough corridor and the Northwest Critical Conservation Corridor.
- LNG Canada Phase 2 was welcomed in September 2026 as the second-largest single private investment in Canadian history.
- A foreign company fits as a supplier, a technology partner, an offtaker or a co-investor; the office's job is to get projects to decision faster, not to pick the suppliers.
The list
See the table on this page. The source is the Major Projects Office project map; projects are added in tranches and the page carries the latest.
Energy
LNG Canada's first phase shipped in 2025; Phase 2 doubles it and the government's own figures put its emissions well below the world's best-performing facilities. Ksi Lisims, with the Nisga'a Nation, adds a floating facility on the north coast. Darlington is building small modular reactors with the aim of the first operating SMR in the G7. Behind them: transmission twinning in the northwest to connect Yukon to the grid and power the mines and the LNG. For a Gulf company this is the energy engineering, modules, services and offtake market.
Critical minerals
Nickel in Timmins, copper and zinc in Saskatchewan, graphite in Quebec, tungsten and molybdenum in New Brunswick, copper in northwest BC, a clean power and minerals corridor in the Labrador Trough. The stated policy aim: help projects reach final investment decision within two years. Processing, equipment, offtake and project finance are where foreign partners enter; Canada also signed critical minerals agreements with Australia and the G7 alliance.
Ports and corridors
Contrecoeur expands Montreal's container capacity by about 60%; Roberts Bank Terminal 2 adds capacity at Canada's largest port in Vancouver; the Port of Churchill and northern all-weather roads are in the earlier-stage list. These are the corridors the sovereign fleet concept on this site is built around.
Where a foreign company fits
- Supplier: equipment, modules, EPC services, with a Canadian entity to contract through.
- Technology partner: processing, grid, SMR supply chain, with IP arrangements.
- Offtaker: LNG, minerals, power, through long-term agreements.
- Co-investor: alongside the Infrastructure Bank, the Growth Fund and institutional capital; the large-scale requirements apply.
WeOpen qualifies the mandate; the delivery is through the group and the professional advisers each project needs.
Checklist
- Projects relevant to your sector identified from the official map
- Proponent and procurement route understood
- Canadian entity to contract through
- ICA and national security screen for any investment
- Incentives assessed after the base case
Mistakes we see
- Approaching a project without a Canadian entity
- Treating the office as a procurement agency
- Counting a credit before eligibility
Sources
WeOpen.ca is an independent initiative, not a government agency. Programmes and rules are named for context; the official pages in force prevail over anything on this page, and eligibility is confirmed by a qualified adviser. Checked 13 November 2026.