Canada’s biggest challenge as an energy exporting country is security of demand, and Asia offers the greatest opportunity to respond to this challenge.

Securing Canada’s Energy Future, a taskforce report from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the Canada West Foundation, outlines the case for making a broad-based Canada-Asia energy relationship a national priority. It calls for leadership to develop a strategic framework to enhance energy relations with Asia, which is a primary locus of global economic growth and source of growing energy demand in the foreseeable future.

Established in the fall of 2011, the Canada-Asia Energy Futures Taskforce is co-chaired by The Hon. Kevin Lynch, Vice-Chair of BMO Financial Group, and Ms. Kathy Sendall, Director of CGG Veritas. The taskforce, composed of individuals with backgrounds in public policy, business, aboriginal affairs, academia, economics, and sustainable development, offers preliminary recommendations for the creation of a strategic framework on Canada-Asia energy relations.