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<\/p>\nCanada doesn\u2019t really have a shortage of ideas for enormous projects. It has occasionally suffered from the minor inconvenience of taking forever to approve them.<\/p>\n
That problem became impossible to ignore at the Canada Investment Summit.<\/p>\n
Blackstone president Jon Gray offered perhaps the most painful example. His firm helped develop a transmission line carrying Quebec hydroelectricity to New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took us 16 years to build a transmission line of hydro power from Quebec to Queens, New York City,\u201d Gray told the summit.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s answer is the Major Projects Office (MPO).<\/p>\n
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One project, one review, one year<\/p>\n
Canada has now referred 27 nation-building initiatives representing roughly $500 billion in private investment opportunities to the office. They span ports, mines, LNG, nuclear power, highways, critical minerals, and energy corridors. For investors, this may be one of the most important pieces of Canada\u2019s investment strategy.<\/p>\n
The MPO is supposed to give major projects a single route through the federal government instead of leaving developers bouncing between departments and regulatory processes. At the summit, Carney distilled the idea into six words.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne project. One review. One year.\u201d He continued, stating, \u201cSpeed, certainty, and predictability are themselves competitive advantages.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the financial bit. Every additional year spent waiting for a decision can mean higher financing costs, changing material prices, and billions of dollars sitting around earning precisely nothing. Ottawa says the Building Canada Act can provide more coordinated regulatory pathways and greater timeline certainty, allowing companies to make financing decisions earlier.<\/p>\n
But some business still has to design all that stuff. That\u2019s why I\u2019d buy WSP Global (TSX: WSP<\/a>).<\/p>\n WSP could win<\/p>\n WSP provides engineering, environmental, design and consulting services across transportation, power, mining, water, and buildings. A contractor may have to wait until a project reaches construction. WSP can earn revenue during planning, engineering, environmental assessment, and design. Precisely the stages the MPO is trying to move through more efficiently.<\/p>\n