Time to reverse federal funding that prioritizes cars over transit

Somehow our government started spending a lot of money to get urban commuter cars on and off highways, too, while ignoring national, regional and rural public transportation. Greens want to reverse that.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Minister of Labour Filomena Tassi, pictured on Nov. 26, 2019, in the West Block on the Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ASHLEY MORTON

February 24, 2020

The winter of 2016-2017 was a good one for paving and civil engineering companies in Kings-Hants. Then-Treasury Board president Scott Brison was in mid-mandate and on trips back to his Nova Scotia riding from Ottawa he brought with him federal funding for two new highway interchanges—one to serve ...

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