John Lorinc Special to The Globe and Mail Published 16 minutes ago

The federal government needs to adopt the 'measure twice/cut once' philosophy that often gets ignored in national projects, Oxford University professor Bent Flyvbjerg says.

This past summer, a small squad of Ottawa’s top civil servants were busy assembling a bureaucratic dream team that will be known as the Major Projects Office, located in Calgary and headed by oil industry veteran Dawn Farrell. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s in-house disruptor, Michael Sabia, was involved, as were top-level folks from the provinces, territories and First Nations.

Farrell’s crew will be trying to figure out which “nation-building” projects should be green-lit as part of Carney’s pledge to streamline approvals, unleash internal market

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