There’s a way to build fast and smart. Pacific Link is not it

It cannot mean building whatever is politically convenient, regardless of the climate, market, ecological and fiscal evidence. It should mean building projects that make Canada more resilient.

Canada can choose between two kinds of nation-building: one that puts public money behind a long-term wager on a volatile market, and one that builds the clean, reliable electricity system that gives Canada greater control over its economic future, write Julia K. Baum and Tamara Krawchen.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JULIA K. BAUM, TAMARA KRAWCHENKO

October 7, 2026

Last week, the federal government designated the West Coast oil pipeline—now named Pacific Link—as a project of “national interest” under the Building ...

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