When Mark Carney launched the Major Projects Office in late August , he said it was designed to streamline regulatory approvals and help structure financing for proposals deemed to be in the national interest.

The impression left was that the government would move “at speeds not seen in a generation” to secure community consent and unlock private-sector investments for projects that would boost the country’s GDP. The prime minister seemed to have undertaken a fiduciary duty to get the best financial deal for taxpayers, in exchange for the billions of borrowed dollars in the budget .

The evidence from the second tranche of mining and infrastructure ventures, unveiled in British Columbia on Thursday , is that considerations other than economic payback have been prioritized.

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