The Liberal System is Broken
Governments shouldn't have to put together consortiums to beg another level of government to consider major necessary critical infrastructure.
This entire situation is an indictment on the Liberals who broke the regulatory system, drove away billions, killed dozens of major projects and hundreds of thousands of jobs; this is not the way to permanently restore investor confidence in Canada.
This ad hoc and politicized system of favoured proponents and projects is a) temporary b) leaves dozens of real projects stuck in the queue federally losing money and time and c) does a work around of 15 existing laws and 5 regulations that obviously block building - given the Liberals' own "branding", out of which, decisions will be litigated due to already anticipated insufficient Crown-Indigenous consultation, meanwhile projects may be removed from "The List" at any time. And more, the law doesn't even actually include the 2 year timeline politicians keep repeating (some certainty!). Conservatives proposed amendments for all these issues but Liberals rejected them.
What the Liberals should actually do is repeal or fix all the anti-development red tape they imposed in the last decade, prioritize effective, two way Crown-Indigenous consultation by successful precedent, and make Canada's regulatory system competitive with the U.S., and certain, fair, predictable and transparent for private sector proponents to invest and build.
If this Prime Minister really wants Canada to be an energy superpower and build at "unimaginable speeds", he should have fast tracked all existing proposals in assessment, and then immediately fixed all the fundamentals.
Instead it's 6 months later with more divisive debates, yet another office and board to get going, announcements of projects that were either already approved or already under construction, and still no certainty. So far, Mark Carney's promises do not equate to results.