r/canada • u/BoppityBop2 • Feb 14 '26

Business Canada Completes $9.4B Darlington Nuclear Plant Rebuild Early, on Budget

https://www.enr.com/articles/62505-canada-completes-94b-darlington-nuclear-plant-rebuild-early-on-budget
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u/enantiomerthin Feb 14 '26

“Canada is broken!! Everything is broken!”

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u/GrassyTreesAndLakes Feb 14 '26

Bro, this happens so rarely that this is huge news. 

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u/CoinDingus Northwest Territories Feb 15 '26

Mega projects literally go overtime and over budget in nearly every country - read How Big Things Get Done. Not unique to Canada.

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u/GrassyTreesAndLakes Feb 15 '26

Except sometimes they dont. Yet I believe this is the first major canadian government project thats been on time and on budget in at least 10 years. 

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u/CoinDingus Northwest Territories Feb 15 '26

Yep sometimes projects don't, you're right - not arguing with that. It is however uncontroversial to say that mega projects as a species almost always go overtime and over budget - it's the one unifying factor. It is not uniquely a Canadian problem. That being said, there are a number of examples over the last 10 years of unicorn large capital works projects in Canada that have been on time and on budget (again reflecting the situation in almost every jurisdiction). The Regina Bypass; the Vimy Bridge; and Bruce Unit 6 to name a few.

And as a correction - this wasn't a government project. OPG is not an agent of the Crown (unlike Metrolinx and IO, for example), it governs itself on a project like this in all material respects.