The Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald Trump.

But at home, Mark Carney is mirroring the US president by radically centralizing power within his office and cabinet and taking a hatchet to dozens of laws protecting environmental , Indigenous and labour rights , all in order to enact his economic agenda.

His global sale of Canadian land and resources comes just weeks after another major Canadian export – wildfire smoke – decimated First Nations communities in northern Ontario, leading to mass evacuations and warning the world of the impact of a fossil fuel economy.

The Building Canada Strong Act, Bill C-39, is a 250-page piece of omnibus legislation introduced on 21 September by the transport minister and House leader, Steven MacKinnon.

The new bill expands his previous legislation that created an expansive fast-tracking designation for “projects of national interest” to “regions of national interest”,…