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Municipal access to federal infrastructure: funding chopped, stalled &...
REGINA, Sk – Wascana Member of Parliament Ralph Goodale says Canada’s new Finance Minister, Joe Oliver, could make a positive beginning in his new portfolio by restoring federal financial support for...
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Time to push for more community infrastructure, not less!
Last Friday was the first full day of spring in Regina. A bit of the winter’s Arctic vortex returned. It was snowing with a nasty wind-chill. But lots of folks were warmed by a special celebration on...
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March 31st – not a good day for Canada
So it’s the last day of March. Temperatures in Saskatchewan reached a brutal 51-below on the day this month began, so we’re all hoping it will go out more like a lamb. Time will tell. But apart from...
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Canada needs a transformative leap forward in infrastructure
The Harper government’s plan for public infrastructure across Canada is too small and unambitious to meet the nation’s real needs. The Conservatives try to make it sound like they’re doing something...
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Deficient infrastructure hurts economic growth, productivity
It was during the 2011 federal election that Stephen Harper started pledging certain expensive tax cuts that would overwhelmingly favour the wealthy. He called it “income-splitting” and it sounded...
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Federal budget cuts limit infrastructure possibilities
Many people are discussing the new by-pass to be built around southeast Regina to divert through-traffic, and especially heavy trucks, off both Victoria Avenue East and the old by-pass that runs along...
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More top-notch support for a “growth” agenda
David Dodge is a self-described fiscal “hawk”. A much respected former Governor of the Bank of Canada, he was the Deputy Minister of Finance in that crucial period in the 1990’s when Paul Martin...
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Finance ministers confirm infrastructure botch-up
One big-city mayor puts it this way: “What’s so infuriating about federal funding for infrastructure is this government pretending they have a coherent program when they don’t”. You hear a lot of that...
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Speech to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Note for Remarks by HON. RALPH GOODALE, PC, MP (WASCANA) Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada to the FEDERATION OF CANADIAN MUNCIPALITIES Ottawa, Ontario November 20th, 2014 Good afternoon...
View ArticleInfrastructure expansion critical for growth
Except for the Harper government, there seems to be complete consensus about the leading importance of municipal infrastructure in building a more prosperous Canadian economy. Globally, the G-20, the...
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