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Offline JMT

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Do you own a car? I don't know about the highways where you are, but every highway I've driven on lately could use upgrades and they aren't getting them. How much productivity is wasted in cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and even Ottawa due to traffic jams because the highways are decades old and overcrowded and public transit isn't expanding fast enough? That is  the kind of infrastructure that pays dividends.

I wouldn't say that almost every highway could use an upgrade - I'd say that a few of them certainly could.  Most provinces have significantly increased their highway infrastructure spending over the last decade, and much of the new infrastructure money in the 2017 federal budget was available for highway infrastructure.  There is also still the original money from the Conservative government in the New Building Canada Plan - it hasn't been cancelled.

In Manitoba, our biggest problem is the PC government that won't put forward projects for free federal money because they don't want to have to spend any of our own money towards it.