The head of the new federal government Major Projects Office Dawn Farrell speaks, as Prime Minister Mark Carney, looks on, during the announcement of five major projects in Edmonton on Sept. 11, 2025. The Canadian Press/Amber Bracken
The federal government’s new Calgary-based major projects office to help fast track major infrastructure proposals will absorb a similar division created in Ottawa just over one year ago to do almost the same thing.
The Clean Growth Office launched in July 2024, as a division within the Privy Council Office. It was allocated $9 million in funding over three years, and was mandated to implement a cabinet directive to speed up the government’s decision-making on clean growth projects, referring to proposals for projects that reduce environmental impacts and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
