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Canada\u2019s new C$25B Canada Strong Fund aims to back \u201cnation\u2011building\u201d projects, but crypto circles instantly seized on one question: will Ottawa ever buy Bitcoin?<\/p>\n
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Canada\u2019s new government is launching the Canada Strong Fund, a national sovereign wealth fund seeded with C$25 billion (about $18 billion) in federal capital over three years, immediately turning it into a focal point for crypto investors asking whether Bitcoin could eventually be part of Ottawa\u2019s portfolio. Announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa and described as \u201cCanada\u2019s first sovereign wealth fund,\u201d the vehicle is designed to invest in domestic \u201cnation\u2011building\u201d projects while giving citizens a way to participate through a future retail investment product.<\/a><\/p>\n According to the federal backgrounder, the government will contribute C$25 billion on a cash basis over three years, with the fund expected to grow from its investment returns and any additional assets transferred into it. Carney pitched the initiative as a way to ensure \u201call Canadians will have the opportunity to share directly\u201d in large\u2011scale industrial and infrastructure investments, noting that countries such as Norway and the Gulf states already use sovereign wealth funds to turn national assets into long\u2011term financial wealth.<\/a> While no official documentation mentions digital assets, Cointelegraph\u2019s breaking post highlighting the C$25 billion launch and pointedly asking \u201cWill Bitcoin be added to the portfolio soon?\u201d lit up FinTwit and Crypto X with replies from Bitcoin maximalists and macro commentators. Supporters argue Canada is well\u2011positioned to follow global precedents, pointing to Strategy\u2019s multibillion\u2011dollar Bitcoin balance sheet and to U.S. public entities, including state pensions, that have begun allocating indirectly through listed vehicles and ETFs.<\/p>\n Canada already hosts some of the world\u2019s most mature spot Bitcoin ETFs, such as Purpose\u2019s BTCC and Fidelity\u2019s FBTC, which together manage more than C$2.2 billion in assets and have been cited as evidence of the country\u2019s \u201cproactive regulatory stance\u201d toward institutional crypto exposure. <\/p>\n For now, Ottawa\u2019s line is that the Canada Strong Fund will focus on domestic, real\u2011economy projects, but the speed and intensity of the Bitcoin discourse around its launch shows how every new pool of public capital is now seen as a potential on\u2011ramp for digital assets.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Canada\u2019s new C$25B Canada Strong Fund aims to back \u201cnation\u2011building\u201d projects, but crypto circles instantly seized on one question: will Ottawa ever buy Bitcoin? Summary Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26838,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26836\/revisions\/26838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What the Canada Strong Fund is \u2014 and isn\u2019t, yet<\/h2>\n
The Canada Strong Fund will be constituted as an independent Crown corporation with its own CEO and \u201cqualified, independent board of directors,\u201d mandated to pursue commercial returns by taking equity stakes in Canadian energy, infrastructure, critical minerals, agriculture, advanced manufacturing and data projects.<\/p>\n
\u201cDesigned to give all Canadians a direct stake in the Build Canada agenda, it is a Government of Canada fund, but, more importantly, a fund that belongs to all Canadians,\u201d the government\u2019s description states.<\/a><\/p>\nBitcoin speculation arrives instantly<\/h2>\n