The Financial Post reports in its Friday, Feb. 27, edition that restoring investor confidence in Canada is going to require more than a single budget's soothing words and promises of faster regulatory approval. The Post's guest columnist Philip Cross writes that we need to take a close look at ourselves in the mirror provided by the United States. In this country, business outlays remain lethargic while governments direct investment into public transit, electricity generation and electric vehicle manufacturing, is often motivated more by green ideology rather than market forces. In the United States, in contrast, investment is booming, driven mainly by private-sector innovations in technology. In 2026, the four biggest firms active in artificial intelligence (Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft) plan to spend $650-billion (U.S.) on AI-related infrastructure, and they are doing this despite the policy uncertainty and chaos emanating from the Trump administration. This country hates to take lessons from the United States, but when it comes to business investment the U.S. is clearly doing something right.