It’s time for a radical rethink on Canada’s infrastructure planning, but who will have the courage to lead?

Canada’s outdated, siloed approaches to infrastructure management have resulted in fractured, mismatched programs and policies across different ministries and orders of government.

Despite obvious linkages and necessary interdependencies among all types of infrastructure, managing infrastructure effectively has become a jurisdictional hot potato, writes Ashleigh Weeden. Unsplash photograph by Jamie Street

Opinion

BY ASHLEIGH WEEDEN

October 4, 2023

Most people only notice infrastructure when it breaks or fails. Otherwise the critical physical and social systems and structures that enable everything about our daily lives tend to be taken for granted. In the last year alone, many have discovered that the infrastructure t...

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