Prime Minister Mark Carney does the coin toss prior to the 112th Grey Cup, in Winnipeg on Sunday.FRANK GUNN/The Canadian Press

Did it matter that the Carney government’s “generational” budget came and went without the earth shaking? Or that national-interest major projects to be fast-tracked have mostly already been approved but are still some way from completion?

The second list of such projects, unveiled by Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday, included three mines, a liquefied natural gas facility, a northern B.C. transmission line, and an Iqaluit hydro project – and a plethora of promises that they will change the future of the country.

“On their own, any one is transformational,” Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson posted on X. “Together, they will make Canada stronger for generations to come.”

Wow. That’s a big pledge to current and future generations from a government that hasn’t yet delivered the landmark industrial-development revolution at the centre of its agenda.

And the unusual thing is that Mr. Carney’s government keeps promising........

© The Globe and Mail