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After a season spent mapping Canada’s next big bets — ports and launchpads, power grids and AI data centres, battery belts and northern fibre lines — Disruptors: The Canada Project closes with a simple, urgent question: How do we actually build this?
In the season finale, host John Stackhouse sits down with Build Canada’s Daniel Debow and Lucy Hargreaves to explore how entrepreneurs, students and community leaders are trying to turn concern into action. They discuss Canada as an ongoing project, the shift from an operator mindset to a builder mindset, and the role that bold ideas, pragmatic policy and public-private collaboration can play in getting major projects over the line.
As trade routes are redrawn and competition for capital, talent, energy and compute intensifies, the episode asks what it will take for Canada to build — and keep — the critical infrastructure that underpins our sovereignty and prosperity, from coastal ports and Arctic corridors to AI-ready power and productivity-boosting agtech.
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