When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed 1,500 municipal leaders on Friday, he spelled out the advantages of his government’s $60-billion program to build new infrastructure across the country.
The speech represented both good news and bad news for Canadians.
The good news?
The program, Trudeau told delegates to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Winnipeg, will lead to economic growth and expand the middle class.
Heady objectives.
The bad news?
The current state of road work in Canada’s cities is–to understate it–not pretty.
Will the new money will make it worse?
We’ll soon find out.
One thing appears quite certain. Overstressed Canadians, already navigating clogged roads and infernal detours, will face new challenges to their sanity.
Still, the mayors of Canada’s big cities expressed optimism about the infrastructure funding following a meeting Thursday with Infrastructure and Communities Minister Amarjeet Sohi.
Canadian drivers, likely not so much.
What was it that unknown fella (it wasn’t Samuel Johnson) said about that road to hell?
How is it paved exactly?
Still, the slow must (and will) go on.
Oof!
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