Infrastructure spending is one of those shared jurisdictional endeavours that bedevil Canada. To qualify for funds from this program, provinces and municipalities were required to pony up a chunk of money themselves. The five cities it looked at — Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary and Ottawa — not only paid their share of infrastructure money but in some cases spent more. Even as the federal government was publicly ramping up its planned infrastructure spending, the provinces were equally publicly scaling back theirs. This is not the PBO’s first look at federal infrastructure spending.

Source: thestar March 18, 2019 07:18 UTC