Quebec removed a blindfold with the Charbonneau Commission.
A sincere question: have other provinces done the same recently? What did they discover?
> - over-the-top safety requirements, regardless of project size. E.g. in Toronto every road work sight has a police officer present who’s just standing there bored out of their mind.
How much does that add to a project that costs 9-10 digits?
> - lack of experience and expertise. Canada is a relatively young country with very few major infra projects under its belt.
What's your definition of "major infra projects?"
Canada is geographically enormous, with extreme climate and terrain, and clustered populations. Yet somehow they've built infrastructure for a modern, vibrant economy.
Examples:
70 years of remote hydro-electric plants and a transmission network for half a dozen provinces and states.[1]
50 years of nuclear power plants in half a dozen countries.[2]
A counter example for corruption (Canada is currently removing another blindfold), but about a century of bridges, tunnels, highways around the world.[3]
> - lack of care by citizens. Most Canadians aren’t well travelled outside of Americas.
Citation?
> They don’t know what good cities look and feel like.
Ouch.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydro-Québec
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Energy_of_Canada_Limite...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin
Edit: typo & clarity