True Patriot Love - Carney’s ‘Major Projects’ Plan： Real Progress or Political Illusion？

00:00:00.000 all right so welcome everyone here we have it the prime minister i'm joined by mike wixson the

00:00:23.520 prime minister came out this week with five initiatives major projects and it looks like

00:00:29.280 he created a major projects office so i thought that mike that was very interesting that he threw

00:00:35.920 on the table uh five projects which to tell you the truth i actually thought were already happening

00:00:42.480 in some shape or form but um you know uh let's watch a few clips i think we have from uh a couple

00:00:50.160 of the media agencies toronto sun and nick what's the other one uh global news global news and from

00:00:55.440 global okay let's so today as you know canada's new government is announcing the first set

00:01:02.000 of projects that we believe are both in canada's national interest and are feasible to be built

00:01:09.760 the proponents behind the first trash of these projects have already done much of the hard work

00:01:15.920 they've undertaken already extensive consultations with indigenous peoples

00:01:20.320 consultations that meet the standards of existing legislation they've worked extensively with

00:01:26.720 provincial and territorial governments and local authorities and already meet many of the necessary

00:01:32.560 regulatory standards this is the first tranche of projects we expect the second tranche of projects

00:01:39.520 to be announced by the great cup first lng canada phase two what we have today is mark carney after six

00:01:48.480 months has not approved a single national project anywhere in canada it's really incredible he was elected

00:01:56.880 saying that we are an unprecedented crisis and that we needed to move with unimaginable speed so what has he done

00:02:04.560 he's not permitted a single major mine pipeline nuclear plant or anything else what he's done today

00:02:11.920 he's announced that he's going to send an email to an office that isn't even fully staffed up yet

00:02:22.080 which will one day consider possibly approving five projects this is pathetic do you know the federal

00:02:34.480 government is blocking 39 projects that are in the regulatory system 39 scott mo says there's another 100 projects in saskatchewan alone

00:02:47.520 that are waiting on federal decisions the message to mark carney and the liberals is they need to do one thing

00:02:54.400 get out of the way get out of the way get out of the way all these projects need to go ahead

00:03:05.120 is the removal of liberal anti-development laws and taxes that make them impossible to build we don't

00:03:13.280 need a new bureaucracy in ottawa or a new dream list we need the federal government to get out of the way and

00:03:21.120 i'm here to help them do it i'm putting forward the canadian sovereignty act which will get the

00:03:26.240 government out of the way open the country for business unlock our resources repeal the industrial

00:03:31.040 carbon tax the energy cap the shipping ban c69 the pipeline ban repeal all of those liberal laws

00:03:39.040 so that we can become a country that is strong self-reliant and stands on its own two feet and i would

00:03:46.160 just conclude by looking at the results of mr carney not his promises not his latest paper

00:03:51.040 shuffling exercise 62 billion dollars of net investment has left canada since he became prime

00:03:58.240 minister that is the worst five-month record of investment in canadian history mark carney has lost

00:04:05.840 86 000 jobs and there is nothing to show for his six months it's time for him to get out of the way

00:04:13.680 let builders build that workers work okay all right so you know there you have it you listen to you know

00:04:21.840 the prime minister and you thought and i thought pierre just disappeared into the summer i know and he's

00:04:27.920 now he's doing the sovereignty bill he's actually thinking about doing something yeah so uh which is a

00:04:33.440 good idea right i do respect the notion that he points out that there's already a lot of projects that

00:04:41.360 have been given regulatory uh go ahead they're already in the system yes and and the prime minister

00:04:48.160 is ignoring those the first point that i got yeah loud and clear yeah i did get that loud clear you know

00:04:54.480 and so you know we went to and uh we have it on the screen um we went to the major projects office

00:05:03.680 site so this is a new site actually popped up and we're trying to figure out what it is right so if uh

00:05:10.000 nick if you scroll down so you know uh basically i guess the pillars of this are advancing the advancing

00:05:18.000 nation building projects partnering with indigenous peoples and supporting proponents right so and then

00:05:25.440 if you go down i guess to how it works uh they're looking for proponents share details of major projects

00:05:33.920 uh through a single point of contact giving us the information we need to get started then they have

00:05:40.400 a team i guess there's someone in uh and there's a i guess there's a new consultants major project czar

00:05:48.160 yeah who basically reviews it uh with the federal departments indigenous partners and stakeholders

00:05:55.760 and then streamlines the process i don't really understand how they streamline the process i guess

00:06:00.640 they probably get permits and things kind of expedited if they can with the provinces and the

00:06:05.680 parties and then within that said framework you receive a clear guidance and decisions on how to

00:06:11.840 move forward with confidence which is always good and i assume i assume right there's money there's

00:06:20.160 money somewhere in the mix here right i assume you know you put it in we get funding because

00:06:25.200 there's all these new slush funds um you know which so well that's the first thing that i kind of

00:06:32.000 thought as well was uh okay so he's got a list of these new projects some of them which by the way

00:06:37.760 i love that you pointed i thought they were already underway the best of which is the lng

00:06:42.880 canada phase two phase one's already done so we're already doing this we get it yeah but uh what i

00:06:49.280 did notice was okay so this really phase one that was what eight years too late and uh five years

00:06:56.720 late and actually getting completed yeah that one uh but what i noticed was this major projects office

00:07:02.560 okay i think pierre probably is maybe right on this one so now we have another office that isn't fully

00:07:09.520 set up that he's announced that he's going to send emails to right that haven't been appointed anybody

00:07:15.680 he didn't tell us anybody's been appointed to this office that's now going to do these wonderful

00:07:20.880 projects and take on more it's the major projects office it doesn't exist it's not a real thing it's

00:07:28.000 a great acronym i do like the pmo i like that yeah i wish we thought of pmo but i don't really believe

00:07:34.560 like it does sound like a great way to line up uh a bunch of slush funds under one office yeah it seems

00:07:42.640 like you know you we we put a fund together a reserve and then projects come forward and we

00:07:48.720 allocate monies to them the interesting thing so this is where you know back up for a minute because

00:07:53.040 i've been on other shows about this but you know the interesting thing to me is let's get a budget

00:07:58.720 landed first um a budget should allocate monies to projects so when the budget comes out and we're

00:08:06.720 trying to work our way back from our 62 billion dollar deficit that we saw in 24. um we should be

00:08:13.280 working back to minimize that to go down the other way um and then we can make some decisions on which

00:08:19.680 project it's interesting that we're we're now out to major projects before we tackle our budget issue

00:08:27.760 and actually that's should come after we've done sort of an assessment of what we spent previously off

00:08:34.960 the budget and how that did exactly carpet for the horse right so now we're out now we're out trying

00:08:39.840 to figure out products so we're announcing uh tranche one of projects right you know and we're trying to

00:08:47.440 figure those out so and you listen i'm i'm not trying to be hypercritical on this i'm trying to be

00:08:54.400 fair and i and i want to look at this objectively but you know from again a finance perspective the first

00:09:00.560 thing would be is to actually look globally at the budget figure out how much i have to spend and how

00:09:08.240 much i have for projects right so think about your own life your own business your own personal life

00:09:13.120 right i figure out what i need to live right eat drive shelter okay then i figure out how much money

00:09:21.840 i have left how many capital projects i can do how many vacations i can take other things right and i

00:09:28.480 budget them right so i come up with a budget let's back up and do that first well it's like you're

00:09:33.680 right if i'm gonna do some projects around the house i i'm gonna put a roof on uh you know i'm gonna

00:09:38.800 landscape this year okay how does that fit into the budget with everything else we have already got

00:09:43.680 commitments for exactly and that's on on this it's a fair point you know paul it's a fair point because

00:09:50.400 this feels like a shopping list it doesn't really feel like a solutions list if this was all right we're

00:09:57.440 going to put uh more capital into uh diversifying investment into small business and you know

00:10:03.520 following through but these are all major projects of which darlington is already a nuclear project uh

00:10:11.440 uh lng is already a project the foreign copper mine is there are these are it's like they filled

00:10:20.160 the list with projects that are already underway well yeah and you know the promise of elbows up big

00:10:27.120 ideas you know that this didn't cut it right no what are the big ideas here yeah the big guys didn't

00:10:32.640 the big ideas didn't come out so i wasn't really sure i'll be truthful with you i'm not sure if it was

00:10:36.800 a little bit of a misstep so i got to give uh you know a little bit of uh latitude okay um you know

00:10:43.280 maybe thought it was a good idea i you know a couple things that i'd like to kind of point out which i i

00:10:49.440 and this is just my two cents on it both both leaders of both parties right i i would recommend

00:10:57.280 stop having 30 people stand behind you that look really puzzled because that looks kind of goofy

00:11:03.040 it's so funny that you say that because i almost laughed as it was up there people shaking their

00:11:08.240 heads at the wrong moment oh man just a a real mix of people there you know that both crews on both

00:11:14.960 sides like really puzzled with these two leaders right yeah the ones it's interesting before we

00:11:20.160 even get to a budget time the one's talking about a sovereignty bill the other one's talking about a

00:11:26.960 project a major projects office and so i'm like okay you guys are you're not even in the same planet

00:11:33.840 you're not on the same planet and both you're talking about two different things right so you know

00:11:38.480 first things first right housekeeping let's do our housekeeping get our budget in place let's see if

00:11:44.160 both of you can agree all parties that have standing can agree uh quite frankly on a budget

00:11:51.920 right then you can sit down right and figure out what to do now minority government right let's all

00:11:58.960 kind of remember right didn't get enough seats got close but didn't get it minority government we still

00:12:05.360 have to do a little work you know someone has to come on side someone has to say yay or nay it's not

00:12:11.360 it's not just you know hey i'm just going to do what i want um because you didn't get a majority

00:12:16.240 right and so which you know i i think it's positive yep so me again benefit of the doubt right now the

00:12:25.200 public's you know the public polling for the prime minister is good right he's done a really good job

00:12:30.320 at getting the public to stay behind him he's got all the goodwill in the world right now so a little

00:12:36.160 bit of a misstep so that's fine let's figure that out let's try to go forward let's get busy let's

00:12:41.840 get a budget done let's uh you know kind of park this one for a minute it might not been the best

00:12:47.920 idea someone ever had yeah um and let's get into that but okay so now i got to get i mean next week

00:12:56.720 we're going to sit in the house i hope quite frankly i've said this on previous shows i hope we're not going

00:13:03.120 to spend a week of both parties just kind of criticizing each other all week long um because

00:13:09.600 really right now we're in a critical time and one getting up and doing one thing the other doing another

00:13:15.600 thing is not helpful not presenting a budget and then presenting a list of here's what's happening

00:13:21.440 in a dictatorial fashion is not going to lead to peace on the first week in parliament i'm sorry it's

00:13:27.840 just not good i mean am i wrong about this can you tell can you clear this up for me i don't think he

00:13:33.040 can even do this i don't think carney can do this maybe i'm wrong but here's what i i dug up new

00:13:38.640 spending commitments he can't do this without a budget increasing a program from 5 billion to 10

00:13:43.600 billion in lending authority or promising billions for infrastructure it needs parliament to pass that

00:13:49.600 budget the other thing is a binding financial guarantee any guarantees that the government gets out

00:13:55.760 there and puts loans behind it needs uh appropriate uh approval by legislature and then finally permanent

00:14:05.200 structural funding long-term spending must be backed by an appropriation act otherwise it's just an

00:14:13.040 intention which is everything on this list is just an intention so which i don't understand really at

00:14:19.360 this point why you know the strategy on that one is really puzzling why would we get out and do this

00:14:24.560 it doesn't really uh it doesn't look great and and so okay done right park it let's move forward so

00:14:33.440 big ideas right so now we need to come up with some big ideas because that's where we came into that's

00:14:37.520 what we got elected on right i have the background i have i will create the big ideas great you're going

00:14:42.560 to create the big ideas so i've got one let's do ev let's really focus on ev paul well you know okay

00:14:48.720 so right ev let's take that let's just pick that one off for a minute right you want to do ev great

00:14:55.680 right you need to figure out nuclear you need to figure out reactors you need to figure out the power

00:15:02.000 grid the power grid uh if you're going to use ai to do ev quite frankly that takes a ton of power yeah so

00:15:08.560 you need a strategic plan for electricity across all province and coordination of power don't you also

00:15:15.680 need a market to sell these vehicles into well the funny thing is didn't we last week say we're

00:15:21.040 going to relax or defer the requirement for 2026 number of evs into market so kind of the uh and we

00:15:30.240 blew up a deal to actually have a plant here making evs that had nothing to do with us it just

00:15:35.680 didn't make sense because there wasn't enough market for it let's focus on ev though no no i i know

00:15:40.480 but but here's the thing we're already kind of headlong into it we're committed to 50 billion

00:15:45.600 dollars between ontario and quebec so we're in it so i get it and maybe we don't all love it but

00:15:53.280 quite frankly but then if we're gonna figure out large uh country canadian projects right we have to

00:16:03.040 figure out how we do them and therefore electricity on a on a countrywide basis has to be dealt with so i

00:16:09.280 would have rather kind of waited and come up with a full strategy on how to do it now you know coming

00:16:16.240 back to this uh major projects group and everything else the real issue is without both parties or

00:16:24.800 without all parties sitting at the table in some shape or form is it a good idea and probably not to

00:16:31.440 tell you the truth so my recommendation in doing this would have been quite frankly creating a if you're

00:16:38.320 going to create another committee in ottawa would have been committee creating a committee that had

00:16:43.280 representation from all parties so they could sit and talk about the projects before they come forward

00:16:50.400 and talk about some of the challenges whether they be political economic whether it be viable bylaws

00:16:57.760 restrictions uh environment whatever they are indigenous talk about all of them right so figure out 0.99

00:17:05.440 what some of the challenges are for each of the parties and then agree on those ones they can

00:17:10.640 move forward actually move yeah so that that would have been that would have been an elbows up move

00:17:15.360 instead now they're both talking about different projects you have you have one guy going down doing

00:17:21.680 the sovereignty bill and the other guy doing the pmo yeah right or it would have been better if they

00:17:26.160 spent their summer at camp working out a list you're right yeah it would have been great but we didn't do that

00:17:31.440 so and in and not doing that number one we didn't talk about pipelines yeah so you know right away you

00:17:38.240 saw pierre paulia he gets on and he says you know what what happened to pipelines well it's it's nowhere

00:17:46.080 to be seen in the liberal agenda so and the prime minister didn't bring it up you know right now we see

00:17:52.000 a lot going on in alberta with respect to give us a mission caps tell us what we can do all that stuff

00:17:57.440 that's not being addressed at all that's very quiet right now and we're having a little bit of

00:18:01.680 you know dissent uh there's some challenges out there right now people are not happy i was going

00:18:07.680 to say that that process is being stunted i think by probably by uh dissenting voices that are affected

00:18:15.520 by it okay big time yeah big time but but you know again if those groups got around the table they'd

00:18:20.880 say listen we need pipelines somewhere in the equation right so for us to go forward and get behind this

00:18:26.000 so then they have to give and take right you know you want to do so much on the ev side we

00:18:30.720 want to do so much on the pipeline side you know let's meet in middle ground we you know we're already

00:18:35.840 you know quite frankly i i don't think we can get out of ev now because i think we're headlong into ev

00:18:41.920 especially with you know like i said ontario and quebec so like it or don't like it we're into it

00:18:47.360 we're stuck with it yeah we're stuck with it i think it's built quite frankly i understand yeah it's

00:18:52.080 built out massive massive facilities yeah so we're we're done so and then the next thing quite frankly

00:18:59.440 you know we don't address in any of these conversations right now defense that's a good

00:19:04.880 point i don't see i see uh mining gas nuclear and the oddest thing ever to me is uh is the uh terminal

00:19:18.640 container project but i don't see anything here that talks about major infrastructure of our defense

00:19:25.040 or our power grid or our overall uh transportation system in canada except for one idea yeah the speed

00:19:33.760 train which has been an idea quite frankly that's since we were kids yeah this is like the 100th time

00:19:39.200 we've heard about this there's been press conferences you know it's it's been kicked around so long that no

00:19:44.480 one really even they throw it on the table as a you know throw away and i do like the idea of super

00:19:50.080 train though if we could get one i do like it but i said to you the other day that's great okay we'll

00:19:55.600 put this in but why do i just feel like we'll buy this technology from china they make great speed trains

00:20:02.320 there i can imagine we're not building them here in canada well and you know quite frankly if any of the

00:20:08.400 leaders have been on a train lately and they're going from toronto to auto or toronto to montreal

00:20:12.960 they realize they're pretty empty right there's nobody on those trains not a lot of people and

00:20:17.040 by the way if you're listening to this on that train i want you to put your hand up right now

00:20:20.720 and say i'm the only one okay so and the other one i thought was very interesting so we talked about

00:20:27.360 copper right but resource wise you know the ring of fire didn't make the list so i thought that was

00:20:34.160 really kind of wild because quite frankly it has huge impacts on our auto industry yeah um so that one

00:20:39.920 didn't make the list so the whole again if i had to actually uh change this major projects office

00:20:48.320 list i i would have probably started if i had to prioritize i probably would have started off with

00:20:53.680 resources yep you know that would have been my number one tackle yeah and probably that would have

00:20:57.760 been my first tranche and i would have said okay let's just let's take care of resources in the country

00:21:03.040 first because that'll get the economy going because that's the number one thing we have so you know

00:21:08.880 it's like uh the low-lying fruit in any you know negotiation or business plan go get it first

00:21:14.640 right because you want to be making enough money so when you go to the next projects that are a little

00:21:19.200 more riskier you won't fall on your face right makes sense so go to resources first uh deal with all

00:21:25.120 those and then i would have moved on to some other things you know i would have tackled defense i would

00:21:30.160 have tackled um uh transportation all with the thing all with the goals or the uh guidelines of

00:21:39.120 increasing our gdp so rather than doing projects that aren't going to increase our gdp and increase

00:21:45.760 our productivity as a country i would have set some benchmarks so and had those projects measured

00:21:52.160 against those benchmarks so again we want to be more productive we've talked about it on previous shows

00:21:57.520 we are sorely underperforming in our productivity in our gdp metrics well i mean it would do it would

00:22:03.760 do wonders i would assume for our gdp to just be building our own stuff and using our resources

00:22:08.400 exactly right so make sure you do it at home so really that's what we're exactly we keep saying

00:22:13.680 um and then i would have tackled you know uh easy one i would have put together a reduction of

00:22:19.920 regulatory framework committee and a real one that would have went across and worked with the provinces

00:22:26.560 um to keep producing red tape or at least standardize something we're in one province

00:22:32.800 it's one way and you know the other side of the country it's completely different that makes having

00:22:37.840 national builders or national uh industry sector industry leaders uh it's preventative from them

00:22:44.000 doing business yeah yeah i agree yeah i agree you know and all these things while doing them

00:22:49.760 you ask yourself why not so why aren't we doing them so and i'm sitting there thinking to myself okay

00:22:58.000 if i'm in his shoes because you gotta you have to sympathize you know there's a lot going on um

00:23:02.560 it's a big uh he's tackling a big challenge the prime minister which i appreciate he's got a lot going on

00:23:09.120 you know but again he's got all this public goodwill his caucus quite frankly what can they say without

00:23:18.560 him they wouldn't have been anywhere right so it's not like they're all speaking just as surprised as

00:23:23.440 anybody that they're sitting there with jobs actually many of them exactly and they should be

00:23:27.280 grateful and quite frankly he should be telling them that that you know for now you need to ride my

00:23:32.080 coattails because i got you here i got you to the party yeah so relax let me dance for a while

00:23:39.040 and i need to get this back in order so yes they should all kind of sit down and he shouldn't be

00:23:44.320 having to negotiate it really feels like we're kind of negotiating our own party internally now for

00:23:49.760 some reason so this seems like we're not really dealing with the public and we're not dealing

00:23:54.400 with the conservatives or any other party we're dealing with our own internal issues right now so

00:23:58.960 it looks like they're at a cabinet table and someone's saying you know i want electric vehicles

00:24:03.840 and i i want carbon uh mandates back and i you know it looks like all this is coming back i really

00:24:11.440 don't think he should be not that he shouldn't be listening but quite frankly should he be entertaining

00:24:17.040 them at this point no i don't think so i i think you have to say listen guys i i have to get the country

00:24:22.880 back i have a plan that i have to yeah i have to focus on i i do think that it would have been

00:24:28.160 interesting to see uh and there's no reason for the for the pm to do this but it would have been

00:24:34.240 interesting to see him as a leader of a party and the country and peer polyev actually have an accord

00:24:41.200 for the moment that says okay can we create a justified list together that works you know yeah

00:24:49.360 but the problem is once they do that you've got one side screaming for a budget that the other one

00:24:54.240 doesn't have prepared that is based on spending the the year before that doesn't or the term before

00:25:00.880 that still hasn't been delivered so there's never there's no basis there's no level playing field for

00:25:07.120 us to work on yeah there's some catch-up right we have a we have some big catch-up to do but quite

00:25:13.040 frankly we should be doing that now um before we move forward and then once we get that out of the way

00:25:18.560 then we can sit down and figure out the projects but report on what's happened sit down figure it out

00:25:25.520 forget all these you know single new committees and then move forward and and get some consensus

00:25:32.400 on what the project should be well i remain confused about what the uh canadian sovereignty act will be

00:25:40.960 and i remain confused about what the major pro projects office will do but it's nice to hear

00:25:48.400 that there's an office involved in that these will not be bureaucrats working from home i'm assuming

00:25:52.880 they're going to have to go to the office then i hope so and you know what mike i i for all of you

00:25:57.520 listening today i i hope you get a chance to watch i did a few shows uh on uh the budgets the 2024 budgets

00:26:05.520 before they they sit next week i hope you get some time please listen to them you know and uh

00:26:13.120 i'll vouch for this it's a great primer you'll understand much better how our spending has worked

00:26:19.360 it may enrage you to know the truth but at least you'll know going into this uh new term uh with

00:26:26.960 the new prime minister and uh this session where we stand it's very good i really loved it let's figure

00:26:32.800 out the set point of where we're at and then move forward but please watch and subscribe and and

00:26:38.560 we look forward to catching up next week when we see the new development gosh paul you're good with

00:26:43.440 the numbers huh ah not bad thank you thank you

True Patriot Love - September 22, 2025

Carney’s ‘Major Projects’ Plan： Real Progress or Political Illusion？

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