Canada · Industrial projects
Canada’s first Major Projects Office referrals, announced on 11 September 2025, covered LNG, a container terminal, a nuclear project and two mines.
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British Columbia · LNG · 2025-09-11 Source 1
Quebec · Port · 2025-09-11 Source 1
Ontario · Nuclear · 2025-09-11 Source 1
Saskatchewan · Mining · 2025-09-11 Source 1
British Columbia · Mining · 2025-09-11 Source 1
All five projects were announced together. Later approvals have their own records.
Transport Canada identified seven cities for the proposed Toronto to Québec City high-speed rail service. Alto intends to build the central segment first, with stops in Ottawa, Laval and Montréal.
Calgary City Council approved a surface route for the downtown Green Line in September 2026. The decision followed a deep-tunnel plan and a provincially commissioned elevated proposal. The first 16 kilometres of the line were already a separate construction package.
The Canada Infrastructure Bank reached financial close on 23 investments in its 2024 to 2025 financial year. Green infrastructure had nine new closes, followed by clean power with six.
Cedar LNG reports that construction of its Indigenous majority-owned project was more than 70% complete in October 2026. The floating plant is being built in South Korea while pipeline and terminal work advances in British Columbia.
The Champlain Hudson Power Express became operational in May 2026. Hydro-Québec began its contracted New York deliveries on 1 June, using a cross-border connection rated at 1,250 megawatts.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s 2026 agreement raises its proposed hydro allocation to 2,350 megawatts and adds a 400-megawatt wind allocation. It also sets out four ways to reach export markets, with different physical and commercial terms.
The Port of Montréal began in-water construction for its Contrecœur container terminal in August 2026. Earlier milestones covered fish-habitat approvals, a borrowing limit and repayable financing.
At Ontario’s Côté Gold mine, ore mined rose from 3.07 million tonnes in the second quarter of 2026 to 3.80 million in the third. Ore milled barely changed, while a lower feed grade and recovery accompanied a decline in gold output.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission issued a licence to construct one BWRX-300 reactor at Darlington in April 2025. Ontario Power Generation had applied in 2022 after selecting the design the previous year.
The 9.2 kilometre extension includes underground stations, two elevated stations and an open-air stop at Renforth. Its construction packages also show how separate tunnelling contracts meet the elevated guideway and the existing line.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge opened to traffic on 27 July 2026. The six-lane span is one part of a crossing that also includes two border inspection sites and the Michigan I-75 interchange.
The project combines a deepwater port with about 230 kilometres of all-season road. In 2026 a review board received the impact statement and the federal government announced conditional planning support while it assessed a possible national interest listing.
BHP reported Jansen's first stage 87% complete on 20 October 2026 and its second stage 18% complete. Its current investment estimates are USD 8.4 billion and USD 6.9 billion respectively.
LNG Canada's partners took a final investment decision on Phase 2 in September 2026. The project adds two processing trains and is designed to double terminal capacity from 14 to 28 million tonnes a year.
Canada’s November 2025 Major Projects Office announcement covered six named projects and a regional strategy. The British Columbia entries show how the same transmission line and gas export facility can appear in both a project list and a larger corridor plan.
Montréal's Réseau express métropolitain put five stations into service in July 2023, 14 more in November 2025 and four more in May 2026. The airport branch entered testing and remains scheduled for 2027.
PowerCo Canada appointed EllisDon as general contractor on 24 September 2026 and moved the expected start of operations to 2029. Its construction announcement a year earlier had targeted initial production in 2027.
Canada listed the proposed three-berth Roberts Bank Terminal 2 as a project of national interest on 30 October 2026. Transport Canada is targeting a final investment decision by mid-2027 and commercial operations in 2035.
Aspen was 88% complete overall and 82% complete on construction at the end of July 2026. SaskPower’s own updates show how equipment delivery and engineering can advance ahead of site installation at a 370 MW generating project.
BC Hydro’s Site C project received environmental approvals in 2014 and commissioned its last generating unit in August 2025. Diverting the Peace River, filling the reservoir and starting each generator were separate milestones.
British Columbia’s 16-kilometre Expo Line extension adds eight stations from Green Timbers to Langley City Centre. Three have planned transit exchanges. The province reported construction underway at all eight stations in May 2026.
The Trans Mountain expansion entered service in May 2024 and lifted total system capacity to 890,000 barrels a day. The Canada Energy Regulator reported average utilisation of 82% from June 2024 through June 2025.
Pikangikum became the project's first connected community in 2018. Muskrat Dam became the 16th in April 2026, after construction and energisation of the main transmission system had been reported separately.
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