Love It or List It, 24 Sussex

Uh, well, when we talk about building things, we're gonna talk about a completely different scale now.

I wanna talk about major projects for a second.

Tonda, a year ago at this time, we were sweating because the Building Canada Act had just passed, right? This idea of, uh, projects of national significance that could be fast-tracked.

A year later, we're now seeing a list of things that could wind up being those projects of national significance, the Mackenzie Valley Highway, an arctic deep water port, and a nuclear waste storage facility.

What can we say about the speed at which the government is getting things done?

I mean, I think we have this incredible speed of announcements and plans and strategies and meetings and process, and other people being designated to consider and consult on all of this, but Pierre Poilievre's not wrong in that it still seems to be a lot of process.

So i- in that respect, I think we have an interesting list of projects that the government thinks are worth the designation of nation building and worth fast-tracking.

Largely, they're mines, they're infrastructure, potentially a pipeline, ports, that kind of thing that is aimed at getting products from s- you know, [laughs] in the manufacturing heartland or other places, out to ports and out to markets in the world.

Um, so that's an interesting concept.

He's also gone heavy on energy issues, uh, nuclear, for example.

So until we see shovels in ground, I think that, you know, a lot of this is still a lot of process.

I think we should really laser in on the pipeline here because-

Yes

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Angus Reid Institute polling shows when Canadians hear major projects, they think pipeline.

So if you're Mark Carney, there's a little bit of a reminiscence here to 24 Sussex, which is that he's doing things that will probably show their effects once he's gone.

I mean, the pipeline to the West Coast, if everything goes according to plan, which I think we probably shouldn't even bet on that happening in the first place, but if it does, we're talking early 2030s before we see any kind of economic boost from that.

So if you're Carney, I think there is sort of a comms conundrum here, where you kinda have to make a lot of noise Maybe announcements aren't the thing, but photo ops of shovels in the ground and showing Canadians you're making progress, and keeping Danielle Smith on board so she will talk you up about these things.

So these are long timelines, and showing short-term political results is tough.

And they're not sexy, are they?

No.

Like, you know, z- oh, putting a shovel in the ground on a graphite mine, like, snooze.

[laughs]

But-

Or a gravel highway.