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Feds will stop investing in new road infrastructure, environment minister says (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the federal government will stop investing in new road infrastructure — a comment that immediately drew the ire of the Opposition Conservatives and some premiers who said the climate activist turned politician is out of touch.

Guilbeault said Tuesday the government will be there to support provinces paying for maintenance but Ottawa has decided that the existing road infrastructure "is perfectly adequate to respond to the needs we have."

"There will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge the road network," Guilbeault said, according to quotes published in the Montreal Gazette.

"We can very well achieve our goals of economic, social and human development without more enlargement of the road network."

Guilbeault said the federal government is intent on moving people out of their cars and into public transportation, which the government has spent billions to build.

The federal government also wants to encourage "active transportation," which means getting people to walk and cycle.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is already being walked back:

“Of course we’re funding roads,” Guilbeault said. “We have programs to fund roads, but we have said — and maybe I should have been more specific in the past — is that we don’t have funds for large projects like the Troisième lien that the CAQ has been trying to do for for many years.”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think it's more a clarification than a walk back. They aren't going to grow the road system, but road maintenance and safety upgrades were never on the chopping block.

Basically no more "one more lane bro"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's exactly what I took from reading the original article. You'd have to want to see something else in order to see it some other way, or be an incompetent reader.

[–] sbv -1 points 6 months ago

just like they said "heating oil will cost more bro trust me bro just get a heat pump bro ditch the oil bro".

Both of these initiatives are great, but they require discipline, which the Liberals sorely lack.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Liberals are managing to wiffle-waffle themselves into a political butchering.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Less waffling and more shitty comms, which unfortunately has been a consistent problem with this government for years, particularly for files where Guilbeault is minister. That guy shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a microphone...