Budget 2025: Building Canada’s Quantum Future
Yesterday, the federal government tabled a landmark budget that positions Canada to build “Canada Strong” through strategic, future-focused investments. For the nation’s growing quantum community, Budget 2025 points to setting quantum technology as not just a policy goal, but a national priority.
The federal budget proposes to deliver $334.3 million over five years to “anchor quantum technology companies in Canada” and to foster pathways for quantum adoption in defence and other nationally significant applications. The new Defence Industrial Strategy is designed to scale up the quantum ecosystem.
Beyond direct funding, the budget also tackles long-standing challenges for deep tech scale-ups. Enhanced intellectual property (IP) protections, renewed programs like the Innovation Asset Collective Patent Collective and NRC IP Assist, and new incentives for venture capital investment are designed to help Canadian quantum firms protect and retain the country’s most valuable IP throughout their rapid scaling phases.
Additionally, the introduction of a “Buy Canadian” approach, explicitly prioritizing procurement from domestic technology champions, means Canadian quantum companies have new opportunities to secure government contracts and become first-in-line suppliers for significant national infrastructure, public sector, and defence projects.
Budget 2025 also recognizes the foundational role of sovereign infrastructure and access to finance:
- $925.6 million is earmarked for the creation of large-scale, Canadian-owned AI and compute capacity, which will underpin both quantum and AI research, commercialization, and national security.
- The launch of a new Defence Investment Agency mandates systematic engagement with Canadian high-growth tech firms, streamlining federal procurement pathways and enabling more rapid technology adoption in key government portfolios.
As a proud Canadian quantum company, we are energized by these commitments and look forward to engaging with government partners as these measures roll out. Canada’s continued leadership in the quantum revolution will depend on how well these initiatives are executed, but the budget’s ambition and resource commitments make clear that our country intends to lead not just in discovery, but also in industrialization and real-world impact.