Consent, not conflict: what Carney’s infrastructure push needs to succeed

If Ottawa compresses the regulatory timetable without expanding Indigenous capacity, it risks compressing the conversations that could produce durable agreements.

If Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is prepared to deploy extraordinary machinery to reduce project risk for proponents and investors, it should deploy comparable machinery to address the interests of Indigenous governments, writes Mark Quinn. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARK QUINN

September 30, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney has staked his agenda on building things fast—pipelines, mines, ports, transmission lines, the “nation-building” projects he argues Canada needs to compete in a more dangerous world. But as Ottawa fast-tracks major projects, the legal ground ...

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