How Lucy Hargreaves Wants to Make Canada a Better Place to Build

So I've been seeing Build Canada on my feeds all over for the past year seem to be everywhere and gaining a lot of momentum, which is why I was so keen to talk to Lucy.

She is sort of embedded in this ecosystem of really high-powered business leaders in Canada, and I think she has a real pulse of what it's like to run a business in Canada today.

It's funny, we covered Build Canada when they first came out.

And obviously with anything like that, there's some skepticism attached.

It was a really fraught political moment at the time when they launched, in particular in the United States with the launch of Doge and all kinds of things.

So I think the skepticism was good.

Yes, for sure.

And somebody who's also sort of wedged between government, public service, entrepreneurship, somebody who's worked and seen the inner workings of the public service, but equally has all this exposure to the entrepreneurial space.

How do you kind of fix that friction, like that cultural friction between spaces that operate at notoriously really different speeds? I'm curious what she has to say about how you can sort of imbue that energy, that speed of building a business responsibly while working with the government, which as we know, notoriously, kind of slow.

So, I mean, that ends up being this really funny question of like, you know, entrepreneurs want to move fast.

They want to break things.

But government like isn't like that.

This is a different moment.

Like the imperative for us to have economic sovereignty, build this country, we're entering like our relationship with our neighbor to the south is so different.

So if there's any time to have some urgency in how we work and change how we work, it is right now.

Absolutely.

It does feel like a really particular moment in time and I'm excited to hear her speak more to it.

Let's welcome Lucy to The Moment.