To build new homes, Ottawa should focus on removing barriers

Canada needs hundreds of thousands of new homes every year. Ottawa is not going to build its way out of that challenge.

Canada needs criteria of national interest 

Without explicit thresholds in the Building Canada Act defining what makes a project of national interest, navigating these questions could easily become a big problem.

Canada can be a resource superpower if we build the road to get goods to market

What we need is a co-ordinated, long-range strategy, a national trade corridor plan that links the country’s productive zones to its export gateways through reliable, resilient, multimodal infrastructure.