With Canada’s economic potential, investors should be rushing to fund projects promised by Mark Carney on Thursday, yet delays in approvals and government handpicking are holding growth back.

Instead, we have central planning from the government in Ottawa and financing from the government bank.

Even with the PM announcing his new list of projects, he also said they may not go forward; they haven’t been approved yet.

So what then is the point of all of this theatre? It also doesn’t live up to Carney’s own words that he promised when Canadians elected him to lead in April.

“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.

He still isn’t doing that. Not in his budg

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