The sprawling LNG Canada export terminal in Kitimat, B.C., on April 25.Aaron Whitfield/The Globe and Mail

It’s never good form in any setting to make a grand display of heroically sweeping in at the last moment after everyone else has done all the hard work.

And yet, there was the Mark Carney government doing just that last week with its announcement of the first five major projects that will be considered for fast-track approvals under the Building Canada Act.

In four of the five projects, virtually all the needed federal and provincial permits are in hand, consultations with Indigenous groups have been completed, and much if not all of the financing is in place or on the verge of being announced: LNG Canada Phase 2 in Kitimat, B.C.; four small modular reactors at Ontario’s Darlington Nuclear Generating Station; an expansion of the Port of Montreal in Contrecoeur, Que.; and the Foran McIlvenna Bay copper mine project in Saskatchewan.

In two cases, the Darlington reactors and the Foran copper mine, work is already under way. At Contrecoeur, shovels could go in the ground as soon as the end of this month.

Only the expansion of the Red Chris copper mine in B.C., which has........

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