Jonathan Wilkinson, the federal minister of natural resources and energy, has said that developing the clean electricity grid of the future — the cleaner and bigger grid we need to support a a net-zero economy — is a “nation-building project akin to the building of the railway.”
Comparisons to Canada’s great accomplishment of the 19th century require some caveats now. But setting aside the worst elements of the railway’s construction, the comparison suggests both the importance of the work and the effort that will be required to finish it. From conception to the last spike, the national railway project took 14 years to complete.
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