Behind on infrastructure spending, Trudeau Liberals should’ve taken lessons from Harper era, says expert

The Liberals missed a prime opportunity to learn from a hiccup faced by the Conservatives in 2009 in getting infrastructure cash out the door quickly.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, pictured in his office on March 29, says accounting problems and timing issues are to blame for massive infrastructure spending lapses.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JOLSON LIM

April 9, 2018

The Liberal government could have avoided running so behind schedule in distributing billions in promised infrastructure funding had it learned from the missteps of the stimulus program helmed by the Harper Conservatives during the late 2000s recession, according to former Finance Canada senior econ...

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