The critical infrastructure you can’t see - Trust as the missing line item in the next 50 years of building Canada

Canada is about to spend over $100 billion on roads, hospitals, transit, and homes. Every one of those investments depends on something the budget never names: Trust.

That the right projects were prioritized. That decisions are made for reasons people can understand. That the data, the permit, the signature, and the source are real.

But trust in institutions is eroding.

And the tools to fake identity, simulate authority, and manipulate signals are getting exponentially better.

We are building physical infrastructure on a trust layer that is actively breaking.
No ministry. No agency. No line item.

Ron J Williams, founder of ScamHERO and venture partner at Co-Created, on what it would mean to treat trust as critical infrastructure, co-create it with citizens, and what happens if we don’t.