These are the minimum requirements to help lower emissions from existing industries and allow new industries to be established, while limiting the risk of public funds being overextended on fossil fuel projects.
Simply speeding up approvals for a few infrastructure projects does not build us a new Canada. Going bigger and broader—focusing on infrastructure that could directly improve the lives of literally every Canadian and aiming to help solve numerous crises at once—now that’s smart, strategic and forward-thinking nation-building.