—instead of empowering the existing national supply chain office, which already knows Canada's corridors and bottlenecks? Why not use that?
Give it one federal schedule. Give it the authority under law for concurrent reviews, a proper one-year timeline, status reports and public accountability when a department fails to show up. There's DFO. There are other permits that need to be dealt with.
Right now, this so-called transportation project office, if you decide to use it, wouldn't have any of that authority.