Federal timelines, community readiness and investor certainty sit on one pathway, not three competing clocks. In the first of two conversations, Kluane Adamek, Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Council to Canada's Major Projects Office, sets out why.

A recent piece of federal legislation shows what that pathway looks like in practice. Adamek recounts the Council pushing to extend a proposed one-month engagement period, an intervention with a direct bearing on how much trust a process can build before a decision is made.

For a project finance banker in London, an infrastructure fund manager in Amsterdam, or a sector coverage banker in Paris, the lesson is that a thirty-day engagement window is a starting point for negotiation rather than a hard deadline. A nation's answer of "yes, but not right now" functions as a planning signal, and t ...