COVID-19 changing the infrastructure lens across Canada

The onset of COVID-19 has resulted in some significant changes to infrastructure spending in Canada, which could be applied to health and education infrastructure, transport, and disaster mitigation.

Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna is pictured in Ottawa in November 2020. Aside from highlighting areas in our health-care system that needed increased capacity, COVID-19 has us rethinking where infrastructure investments need to be made, writes Warren Mabee.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY WARREN MABEE

April 14, 2021

Margaret Thatcher famously said that “You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.” What is infrastructure, and how do we fund it? In terms of public assets, infrastructure usually encompasses 10 broad categories: roads and rail, public transit systems...

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