Liberals to delay billions in planned infrastructure spending
OTTAWA — The federal Liberals plan to shift just over $2 billion in planned infrastructure spending to future years, reflecting slower-than-anticipated spending on the file, The Canadian Press has learned.
The money won’t come from planned spending in one specific year.
Nor will it come from one specific program, but across multiple funds set up by the Liberals and the previous Conservative government, as well as large-scale projects overseen by Infrastructure Canada, such as the Champlain Bridge replacement in Montreal.
What the Liberals have found is that they can’t move cash fast enough out of the federal treasury for infrastructure projects around the country.