{"id":78311,"date":"2026-09-11T14:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/09\/11\/bmo-commits-70-billion-in-new-spending-to-help-build-canadian-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:02:36","slug":"bmo-commits-70-billion-in-new-spending-to-help-build-canadian-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/09\/11\/bmo-commits-70-billion-in-new-spending-to-help-build-canadian-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"BMO commits $70 billion in new spending to help build Canadian industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Manufacturers in &amp;apos;eye of the storm&amp;apos; of tariff war\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nXksU4wWUpg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> Bank of Montreal says it will spend up to $70 billion in new capital over 10 years in sectors it considers critical to Canada\u2019s economy , including energy , transportation , mining , defence and artificial intelligence . <\/p>\n<p> \u201cBuilding Canada has always depended on bold ideas backed by capital,\u201d chief executive Darryl White said in a statement on Friday. \u201cThe opportunities before us today in these critical economic sectors are the latest chapter in that story.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Canada\u2019s biggest lenders are promising to spend billions of dollars in sectors that are supposed to play a key role in boosting the country\u2019s economy ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s Canada Investment Summit next week that will bring together global investors, Canadian executives and public-sector representatives. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li>Bank of Montreal beats analysts&#8217; expectations, announces share buyback<\/li>\n<li>Banks say AI is allowing them to recover unpaid loans, cut call centre volumes and save workdays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Thursday committed to spending $2 billion to help small and medium-sized defence-related businesses grow, while Royal Bank of Canada on Wednesday announced a $1.4-billion initiative to invest in Canadian technology companies. <\/p>\n<p> BMO said its planned capital mobilization is expected to take place through bank financing, debt capital markets and raising public equity. <\/p>\n<p> <em>\u2022 Email: nkarim@postmedia.com <\/em> <\/p>\n\n<br \/>BMO commits $70 billion in new spending to help build Canadian industry<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-09-11 14:02:36<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Montreal says it will spend up to $70 billion in new capital over 10 years in sectors it considers critical to Canada\u2019s economy , including energy , transportation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0912-mg-bmo.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/78312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}