The power to designate parts of the province as special economic zones was created in the controversial Bill 5.

Invited to bid on the project are teams led by EllisDon, Pomerleau, and a joint venture between Sacyr Infrastructure Canada and Amico Major Projects.

Regional Fence was found to have failed, as an employer, to ensure workers were protected from the hazard of a falling stack of fencing.

More than half of the projects Piccini's office gave funding to were ranked by bureaucrats as poor, low or medium against the program's goals and criteria.

The 2024 federal budget said reducing the federal office footprint would generate "substantial" savings of $3.9 billion over the next ten years, and $0.9 billion per year after that.