Invest in Northern infrastructure

First posted: Saturday, January 23, 2016 07:50 PM EST | Updated: Saturday, January 23, 2016 07:54 PM EST

New spending on infrastructure can’t come soon enough for Northern and Indigenous communities where infrastructure endowment is among the poorest in the country. The lack of adequate infrastructure in the North – including port facilities, runways, roads, bridges, telecommunications, housing, and energy infrastructure – creates what is arguably the most significant barrier to community and economic development in the region.

With this in mind, we welcome the federal government’s stated commitment to increase infrastructure spending in Canada. In many communities in Canada’s North, critical infrastructure doesn’t exist and community infrastructure, like housing, is severely overcrowded and in need of major repairs.