Feds criticized for ‘holistic’ definition of infrastructure

'The government is presenting its $100-billion plan as a way to improve long-term growth, but most of what they are proposing doesn’t fall into that description,' says the Fraser Institute's Charles Lammam.

A new assessment by the market-oriented Fraser Institute found that only 10 per cent of the federal government's more than $100-billion infrastructure plan will be earmarked on projects improving the flow of trade and transportation. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

April 12, 2017

Only 10 per cent of the $100-billion in promised infrastructure funding from Ottawa over the next decade is earmarked for projects that will improve the flow of transportation and commerce in Canada, a...

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