Coming up on Thursday, the Federal Government will reveal the next wave of infrastructure projects it’s referring to the Major Projects Office for review. 

Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled the timing to reporters during a media event in Fredericton on Monday focused on buying Canadian. 

The touted that the budget “builds Canada strong by unleashing over $1 trillion in total investments in Canada over the next five years. Those investments alone will increase Canada’s GDP by over 3.5 per cent.”

Carney announced the first five major projects up for consideration two months ago. They include McIlvenna Bay Foran Copper Mine Project in Saskatchewan, a copper operation in northwest B.C., the expansion of container capacity by 60 per cent at the Port of Montreal, the doubling of liquefied natural gas production in Kitimat, B.C., and construction of a small modular reactor in Ontario.  

“This is not a one-and-done. It’s not one round of projects, and then we move forward with those. It is a living list. We’ve developed more.”

So far, none of the five projects have received the national interest designation to help them progress forward more quickly. The designation would help each project breeze through the approvals process via special treatments such as exemptions from certain environmental laws.