Public policy changes needed: hospitals should have access to federal infrastructure funding

Over the past decade, hospitals were excluded from the Build Canada fund and now they are excluded from the federal government’s ambitious Investing in Canada plan.
Canada's federal Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, pictured recently in his ministerial office in Ottawa.
Over the next decade, the federal government plans to invest $25.3-billion in social infrastructure in communities across Canada—much-needed money to build affordable housing, early learning and childcare centres, and cultural and recreational infrastructure. But hospitals, among the most importa...

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