Minister Mckenna Unveils Set-Aside Infrastructure Funds for COVID-19 Response

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In an interview yesterday with the Canadian Press, Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna provided an update on her efforts to flow infrastructure funding to provinces and territories and revealed that the federal government will allocate $3 billion of existing infrastructure funds towards a new COVID-19 funding stream. Minister McKenna framed it as “not a new stimulus program but an attempt to be smarter and more efficient with existing programs.”

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