Carney’s ‘nation-building’ programme misses mark to be truly transformative for Canada

The $C56bn plan focused on investing in a resource economy falls short of changing Canadians' day-to-day lives

Canada's prime minister Mark Carney likes to say that when he was young, we used to build big things in this country, and we used to build them quickly."

That idea - of sprawling projects that transform nations, has influenced both his narrative as an economist-turned politician and his government's multibillion dollar investment spree. It's time to get back at it, and get on with it," he said in September.