Flow-Through Shares: The Tool We’re Not Using (Yet) to Supercharge Canadian Tech

Let me cut to the chase.

Canada has a homegrown, proven investment tool that’s pumped over $1 billion a year into junior mining and clean energy — Flow-Through Shares (FTS). It’s not a subsidy. It’s a smart tax maneuver: companies pass their R&D or exploration costs through to investors, who then write them off. Everyone wins. Capital flows. Jobs are created. Growth happens. Fast.

So why is this tool still locked in the basement of the resource sector while Canada’s tech startups — the real job creators of the 21st century — are fighting over crumbs?

What You Need to Know in 60 Seconds

FTS works. It fuels 75% of junior mining exploration. Over 30,000 jobs exist today because of it.
Investors love it. 100% tax deduction. 15% federal credits. Provincial top-ups too.
The government doesn’t cut cheques. They give up future tax revenue — only if private money steps in first.
It creates a multiplier. Every $1 raised creates $2.50–$3.00 in real economic activity — hiring, R&D, services.
There’s zero new red tape. CRA already knows how to run this play. Lawyers and accountants do too.

Why Tech Deserves It

Canada’s tech sector delivers nearly 9% of our GDP, employs 1.8 million people, and pays wages 50% higher than the national average. It’s our fastest-growing, highest-impact sector — and we’re starving it of early capital.

Our startups don’t need another committee. They need cash. FTS can deliver.

If this tool were available to tech:

We’d unlock hundreds of millions in new private capital annually
We’d keep Canadian IP and companies on Canadian soil
We’d create thousands of high-paying R&D and engineering jobs
We’d finally have an answer to Silicon Valley’s gravitational pull

Still Not Convinced?

The UK has been doing this since the ’90s. Their EIS/SEIS programs have driven £30 billion+ into high-risk ventures — backing companies like Deliveroo and Revolut. Canada invented FTS, but we’re now trailing behind in our own innovation game.

Bottom Line:

Flow-Through Shares are a shovel-ready solution to Canada’s early-stage funding problem. No new programs. No bureaucratic overhaul. Just the political will to extend what already works.

Want to grow Canada’s tech sector?

Extend Flow-Through Shares.
Now.