How to keep track of Canada’s major projects

In a recent Toronto Star op-ed, PPF’s energy policy team argue that Canada needs to turn its new sense of economic get-up-and-go into concrete action when it comes to getting major projects built. 

The key to major project success lies in accountability, write Jay Khosla, PPF’s executive director of economic and energy policy, Arash Golshan, PPF’s energy policy lead and Yiota Kokkinos, the senior executive adviser for energy at PPF. That means a laser focus on project oversight at the highest levels. That could be establishing a cabinet committee on investment. Or something much more simple: How about the Prime Minister and other top officials carry around a progress scorecard in their breast pocket so these projects are always top of mind? After all, what gets measured gets done.  

We’ve pulled together just such a scorecard. PPF’s Major Projects Scorecard tracks the stage of the project, the kind of Indigenous participation, where a project sits on regulatory approvals, the financial incentives and, importantly, what the net-benefit is for Canada’s economy.  

See a downloadable and printable version of the scorecard here.

We hope it’s a useful tool for those trying to build big things.