Anita Anand stated that the appropriate time for Canada to focus on building is

The announcement lands with the weight of a piledriver breaking ground. Not just projects—deliberate, tectonic shifts. Each site a nerve center in a rewiring of the nation's spine. 

**Darlington's silent pulse:** 
In Clarington, the reactor isn't just tech—it's sovereignty. First G7 to operationalize SMRs? That's a gauntlet thrown. Five hundred million a year bleeding into Ontario's industrial veins. Watch the supply chain ignite. 

**Kitimat's double-down:** 
LNG Canada's phase two—a bet on hunger. Global markets clawing for gas, and B.C. answers by doubling output. Jobs? Thousands. Ripples? From drill sites to tanker decks. 

**Montreal's throat widens:** 
Contrecœur Terminal. Sixty percent more gullet for the Port of Montreal. Ships will choke the St. Lawrence, but the cargo flows east-west like unlocked floodgates. 

**The shield cracks open:** 
Saskatchewan's McIlvenna Bay—copper veins tapped. Red Chris Mine's expansion in B.C.'s northwest—gold and copper bleeding into hungry markets. Mines aren't holes; they're battery packs for the green transition. 

*Buy Canadian. Build.* 
The directive hums through steel mills, fabricator shops, union halls. No abstractions—cranes swing, welders spit fire, concrete pours. This isn't policy. It's muscle. 

[The blueprint unfolds here →](pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-r...)