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Capacity Building Program

Strengthening the Canadian Supply Chain Program

Funds Canadian food manufacturers and processors through Protein Industries Canada co-investment to reformulate or scale up products using domestic plant-protein ingredients.

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The Strengthening the Canadian Supply Chain Program is a co-investment grant administered by Protein Industries Canada (PIC), a federally backed innovation supercluster, under its Capacity Building stream. The program reimburses up to 75 percent of total eligible project costs, capped at CAD 150,000 per project. Eligible project budgets must fall between CAD 50,000 and CAD 200,000, meaning the min…

Reformulating products with domestically produced Canadian plant-protein ingredients; scaling up supply of domestically produced food products to Canadian consumers; scaling up domestically produced ingredients to Canadian manufacturers. Eligible crops include wheat, oats, barley, peas, soy, fava beans, lupin, and hemp.

CycleiHow often this grant runs — e.g. annually, on a rolling basis, or a one-off call.Multiple per year
Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.—
Decision timeiTypical time from the deadline to the funder's decision.—
Project durationiHow long the funded work is expected to run.1–12 months
Award typeiThe form of funding — grant, equity, loan, tax credit, etc.Grant
Match fundingiThe share of project costs you must cover yourself. 0% = fully funded.25%
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.—

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Last verified: 22 Jul 2026Source: www.proteinindustriescanada.ca