The pandemic has offered a chance for a reset on infrastructure—and we should take it

We’ll have to carefully consider how this pandemic has reshaped the types of infrastructure we need, as well as how we plan our communities in this new era of social distancing and working from home en masse.

Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna, pictured in the West Block in December 2019, has said the Canada Infrastructure Bank will play an important role in helping our country recover. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARK ROMOFF

April 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an upheaval in Canada’s social and economic life—with everyone scrambling to figure out what our world will look like when we finally emerge from quarantine. Over the past few weeks, the federal government has responded with a series of funding initiatives to h...

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