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Dear Minister LeBlanc,

The BC Chamber of Commerce supports listing Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2) in Schedule 1 of the Building Canada Act as a project of national interest, and we make that case with chambers of commerce from British Columbia to Ontario. On behalf of our network of local chambers of commerce and boards of trade, representing more than 35,000 businesses across British Columbia, we join the Alberta Chambers of Commerce, the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce, the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, each of which has written in support of the designation. 

Dear Minister Joly,

On behalf of Canada’s provincial and territorial chambers of commerce, we are writing regarding the significant and growing economic impacts of ongoing Canada-U.S. trade disruption on businesses, workers, and communities across the country.

Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney toured the Port of Vancouver's Deltaport terminal and confirmed the federal government is looking to invest more than $10 billion to expand it, saying the port's current capacity won't be enough to meet the country's trade goals within a decade.

My identity is deeply Canadian. Not a big statement, just a matter of ordering: I align first with the nation, above the province I am from. This country fills me with pride for what we stand for. It is not always on the tip of my tongue, but it is a feeling of community, authenticity, openmindedness, and I had always thought, prosperity.

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In this line of work, I am learning that the standard measure of success is the advocacy win. You had a position phrased in the form of a policy, you pushed for a change, and the change happened as you drew it up. But how often does that happen? Is it realistic for a list of recommendations to all land at once? And what would it look like if we started to take a less binary approach to our win/loss column?

The most important idea in the 2026-2028 Strategic Plan is not a program or a platform. It is a decision about what kind of provincial chamber to be.

Defence is rising up the agenda in Canada. After years in the background, it has become a live economic conversation, driven by a federal government committing to a large, sustained increase in defence spending and to steer more of it toward Canadian-made capability. That is a scale of investment that changes what defence can mean for domestic industry.

For three days in Fort St. John, business leaders, chamber professionals, policymakers, Indigenous partners, and community builders from across British Columbia came together for the BC Chamber of Commerce's 74th Annual General Meeting & Conference.