Big Projects, Big Politics, Big Policy

But in the here and now, the country needs to figure out fast how to address the situation. [...] More than $700 billion worth of natural resource projects are planned or in the works in the coming decade, and most of these are in the energy sector. [...] Failure to resolve Canada’s energy development challenges is costing — and will cost — the country in environmental performance, and in our capacity to attract investment and foster economic growth and innovation. [...] The transformation in the information and communications environment — notably the rise of social media — magnifies and intensifies the above tendencies. [...] The federal government’s commitments in Paris went a long way to address — at least in perception — the policy gap on climate, but now comes the hard part of identifying what Canada’s future energy system will look like, and where the development of its vast oil and gas resources sits now and in the future.