Canada’s mayors express concern that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won’t deliver a promised long-term infrastructure deal in the upcoming 2024 federal budget.
Canada ’s mayors are expressing concern that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won’t deliver a promised long-term infrastructure deal in the upcoming 2024 federal budget . Jyoti Gondek of Calgary and Scott Gillingham of Winnipeg – were in Ottawa Monday as representatives of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities met with federal ministers to press their case for more funding.
When the Trudeau Liberals came to power in 2015, promises of long-term infrastructure funding were a central plank of the party’s political messaging. But several of those long-term programs are now beginning to expire and Canada’s cities are nervously waiting to find out what happens next. “We were promised infrastructure funding, and to this day, we have not heard of a plan. So as the budget comes closer and closer, we’re getting more and more concerned that there’s no plan,” FCM President Scott Pearce told reporters at a news conference.told an FCM gathering in May that the announcement of a new infrastructure deal was just a few months awa
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