Government Grants for Canadian Businesses

Up to $3M non-repayable ($2M liquidity + $1M pivot), $20M total per business

Incorporated for-profit businesses anywhere in Canada impacted by U.S., Chinese, or Canadian counter-tariffs. Delivered by seven regional development agencies, so minimum request sizes and headcount thresholds vary by region. Must demonstrate tariff impact and pre-March 2025 financial viability.

Negotiated per project, commonly $75K to $250K+

Canadian SMEs (≤500 employees) pursuing technology-driven innovation

15-35% of eligible R&D expenditures

Any Canadian business performing qualifying R&D activities

Up to $5,000 per student placement

Registered Canadian businesses and not-for-profits hiring a domestic post-secondary student into a paid work-integrated learning placement recognized by the student's institution. Governments, crown corporations, hospitals, public long-term care facilities, post-secondary institutions and financial sector employers are excluded, and employers with roughly 100 or more employees must also show the placement is net new.

Up to $5,000 per student placement

Registered Canadian businesses, not-for-profits and charities that hire a post-secondary student onto payroll (not as a contractor) into a technology or digital immersive role that aligns with the student's program of study. The student must be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or protected person, enrolled full-time or part-time at a Canadian accredited post-secondary institution completing a degree, diploma or accredited certificate program for the duration of the work term. Governments, crown corporations, hospitals, public long-term care facilities, public and private schools, post-secondary institutions, members of the House of Commons and the Senate, organizations engaged in partisan political activities, and financial sector employers with 500 or more employees are excluded. International students do not qualify.

Up to $15,000 per year

You must be an incorporated Alberta legal entity with a permanent physical presence in the province for at least one year, and you must have already travelled from Canada to a formal international trade event with Alberta-based travellers. For-profit applicants need annual gross sales of $250,000 to $25 million, fewer than 500 full-time equivalent staff, at least one full-time equivalent employee based in Alberta, and a target market that is new to them, meaning a country or US state producing $150,000 or less of gross annual sales, or more than that only if it stays under 15 per cent of sales, a threshold Alberta's September 2025 guidelines measure against total international sales while its About page measures it against total annual sales.

Up to $2M per parent company, and up to $1M per technology category

Upstream and midstream oil and gas facility owners and operators in Alberta, including TIER-regulated facilities and other Large Final Emitters, retrofitting existing facilities with proven methane reduction technology. Brownfield only: greenfield projects and new construction are ineligible. The project must go beyond what AER Directive 060 and Directive 087 already require; work done solely to meet a regulatory obligation does not qualify.

$1M to $10M per project in the Future Fuels Challenge

Two different doors with different gates. The Contributor Reinvestment Program is open only to entities that have made compliance contributions to the Fund, requires technology at TRL 9 ready for commercial deployment, and needs a Canadian lead applicant with implementation in Canada. The Future Fuels Challenge is open to a broad field including innovators, technology developers, fuel producers and suppliers, Indigenous communities, SMEs, universities, municipalities, not-for-profits and consortia.