Insights
Practical guidance on capital projects, governance, financing, and delivery for Indigenous and public-sector leaders.
Ontario alone is trying to build or upgrade 58,000 long-term care beds by 2028, and as of early 2026 roughly 26,000 are open, under construction, or approved. Behind every one of those beds is a paper trail that decides whether it opens on time, on budget, and inspection-ready.
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A tailings dam can stand for decades and must never fail. The global standard now judging them is, at its core, a records-and-governance test - a documented knowledge base, an operations manual, monitoring data, and a named accountable executive. The safety is in the record.
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The renovation crew trusted the drawing stamped 'final.' Two hours in, a saw blade found a live feeder the as-built swore wasn't there.
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The monthly report isn't hard to write. It's hard because you rebuild it from scratch every month. Structure the record and the report writes itself.
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A municipality's asset register is a billion-dollar promise. It's only as real as the install dates, inspections, and repair logs underneath it.
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Pick one project and count where its truth actually lives right now. For most, the honest number would alarm the people running it.
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A government can mean every word of its openness pledge and still fail it — not through cover-up, but through disorganization. You can only disclose what you can find.
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A regulated utility earns a return only on the capital it can prove it prudently built and put into service. As Canada's utilities enter a multi-billion-dollar investment cycle, the record behind the rate base is quietly becoming the asset behind the asset.
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Canada's Auditor General just flagged a significant deficiency in a Crown corporation's asset maintenance - more than a quarter of its assets in fair, poor, or critical condition. Behind that finding is a governance problem every public agency shares: you cannot prove you are stewarding what you cannot see.
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The building was finished and the owner was sure it was paid for. Then a lien landed on the title for a dispute no one had told them about.
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Six months after handover, the new facilities manager needed one warranty. It took four days to learn it had already expired.
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A forest licence is worth millions and can be suspended over a file that's out of date. The proof, not the fieldwork, is the exposure.
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