Tepid, weak, baby steps.

Those are some of the words and phrases that come to mind when looking at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s list of “nation-building projects.”

To put it bluntly, what Carney has put forward is not what he promised Canadians during the Liberal leadership race or during the election.

At that time, he leaned on his experience as a central banker and his time as chair of Brookfield Asset Management to say he would bring forward major projects that boost Canada’s economy. He promised Canada would uncouple from the United States by thinking big.

“We will need to think big and act bigger. We will need to do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen in generations,” Carney said on election night as he celebrated his win.

His words on that night echoed

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