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Electric vehicles are parked in front of the Parliament Buildings for Parliamentarians to check out during a demonstration day in 2013. Elizabeth May says Canada needs a new network of charging stations for what she says is a coming revolution in electric vehicles.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY ELIZABETH MAY

April 12, 2017

There is no doubt that enormous investments are required in public infrastructure. The deferred maintenance over decades to save dollars in the short term has resulted in a monstrous backlog of public needs that are at the breaking point. Such short-term, politically expedient thinking moved or redu...

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