Can Canada be the template for how things get built?
Canada is making its biggest bet on energy and infrastructure in a generation. Hundreds of billions of dollars are committed to owner-operators building the future. From expanding airports and modernizing public transit to strengthening ports, trade corridors, and the supply chains that keep Canada’s economy moving. The challenge extends far beyond funding. The open question is delivery. Countries that get this right set the standard others follow. Can Canada build what it has committed to, at scale and on time, and become the template rather than borrow one?
Brian TossanChief Technology Officer, GTAA
Michael LindsayPresident and CEO, Metrolinx
Ehren CoryCEO, Canada Infrastructure Bank
RJ SteenstraPresident and CEO, Toronto Port Authority
Jody BeckerChief Capital Officer, Infrastructure Ontario
What’s next for Canada’s energy and infrastructure?
The leaders on this panel are cooling a city with lake water, financing the country’s largest energy and infrastructure projects, and implementing the next generation of energy capabilities at scale. Each is making decisions today that will shape economic opportunity for the next fifty years. How are these leaders balancing growth with long-term resilience and positive impact across Canada? What difficult decisions and trade-offs are defining the country’s energy transition? And what’s next as Canada continues to scale its infrastructure and energy ambitions?
Carlyle CoutinhoCEO, Enwave
Jon NormanPresident, Hydrostor
Jack TaskerVP Finance, Bruce Power
Robert NicholsonMD & Canadian Head of the Power, Utilities and Infrastructure Group, RBC Capital Markets
Championing transformation inside a storied institution
Mark Shapiro · President & CEO, Toronto Blue Jays
Hani Dokainish · Interviewer
Mark Shapiro is a living legend in Major League Baseball. He remade the Toronto Blue Jays and led the organization to its first title in a generation, the 2025 American League Championship. When 70% of organizational transformations fail, Mark was successful, which is remarkable given the profound connection Canadians have with the Jays.
Taking Canadian industry to the world.
Canada’s next generation of energy, mining, and infrastructure projects will require more than capital and ambition. Success depends on navigating complex regulatory environments, allocating risk effectively, securing social licence, building resilient supply chains, and executing major programs with discipline. What we build here is what we take abroad: the capability we prove on Canadian projects is the thing the world buys. What separates projects that move forward from those that stall? Where are the biggest constraints to delivery today, and what practical changes would unlock Canada’s ability to export our knowhow and resources to the world?
The Hon. Marco Mendicino P.C., J.D.Senior Counsel and Strategic Advisor, Cassels
Bernard PerronCOO, Nouveau Monde Graphite
Annette VerschurenChair, NRStor
Mohammed AliVP Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs, Agnico Eagle
