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VIA Rail

kEiThZ said:
So nothing about HFR in the budget?
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It is not a line item anywhere in the document.

That doesn't preclude money come from the Infrastructure Bank or from unspecified infrastructure funds.......but it is not there as a line item.
 
^Still waiting for someone in Ottawa to post a link to the actual budget documents, but there is precious little said in all the bumph re an Infrastructure Bank. One wonders if that idea is dying a quiet death.

If even the EA for HFR hasn't found a way into this budget, I'm assuming the whole thing is dead. Can't see how one could spin HFR to Western Canada when so little is being communicated about expediting economic growth especially in the oil patch.

Wish it were otherwise, but that's where it seems to be.

- Paul
 
I’ve gone through the document. Can’t see anything about HFR or VIA.

I’m with Paul. This isn’t a good sign.
 
^I also found plenty of references to the Infrastructure Bank. None came anywhere close to suggesting that rail services might be funded from that source. Here are a couple of typical quotes that so clearly do not mention VIA as to suggest that someone isn't invited to the party:

To date, the Government has approved more than 33,000 infrastructure projects in communities across the country—with the vast majority already underway. More than $7 billion of the $19.9 billion committed to projects has been fully invested in projects like new highways, bridges, buses, water treatment plants and community centres.
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To help increase investments in critical public transit, trade and transportation, and green infrastructure, the Canada Infrastructure Bank is actively engaged with governments and the investor community on major project opportunities across the country, building on its $1.28 billion investment in the Réseau express métropolitain project in Montréal.
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- Paul
 
This governments spending on infrastructure has been a huge disappointment. All this spending and really nothing to show for it. There is not even a website with a list of projects funded or showing where the money went. Did it all just go into some SNC exectuvites pockets?

Can anyone name a single project that Toronto got funded from the new money promised 4 years ago?
 
lead82 said:
This governments spending on infrastructure has been a huge disappointment. All this spending and really nothing to show for it. There is not even a website with a list of projects funded or showing where the money went. Did it all just go into some SNC exectuvites pockets?

Can anyone name a single project that Toronto got funded from the new money promised 4 years ago?
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This one is one of the biggest, I believe.

www.cbc.ca

Nearly $1B of city and federal money going to new TTC buses | CBC News

The city of Toronto and the federal government will spend more than $930 million on purchasing new TTC buses and refurbishing others.
www.cbc.ca www.cbc.ca

Money for over 1,000 new buses and refurbing a bunch more. About $1B
 
^Ottawa seems to be a lot happier flowing money into things that provinces/municipalities have chosen to accomplish, instead of saying “the country needs x”. Not a lot of courage to defend the merits of a project - if there is backlash, just pass the buck.

- Paul
 
lead82 said:
This governments spending on infrastructure has been a huge disappointment. All this spending and really nothing to show for it. There is not even a website with a list of projects funded or showing where the money went. Did it all just go into some SNC exectuvites pockets?

Can anyone name a single project that Toronto got funded from the new money promised 4 years ago?
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crs1026 said:
Ottawa seems to be a lot happier flowing money into things that provinces/municipalities have chosen to accomplish, instead of saying “the country needs x”. Not a lot of courage to defend the merits of a project - if there is backlash, just pass the buck.
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Yep. And this sucks. How do you build strategic infrastructure if the feds see no role in this? Subways and buses and sewage treatment plants are important. But that's not why the federal government exists.

Nothing in this country ever truly breaks ahead because the municipalities are provinces get to slack off thanks to the feds picking up the slack, while the feds ignore their job to build infrastructure of national significance.
 
Yes exactly. Funding background projects is good, it’s back politics to do this kind of funding as they get no credit politically. The feds should be funding VIA HFR as a national important project. Instead they fund bus replacements. Sad. They should fun DRL, but they don’t.
 
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