Ottawa, ON – Canada’s Big City Mayors are asking for federal infrastructure funding to move faster to enable key housing and infrastructure projects to advance this construction season. Delays in getting dollars to cities would slow construction, drive up costs, and undermine efforts to deliver housing and economic growth at a critical moment for the country.
Earlier this week, mayors of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Big City Mayors Caucus—who represent Canada’s largest cities—held a productive meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the significant steps local governments are taking to expedite approvals and reduce barriers to construction and the need to address delays in delivering federal infrastructure funding to cities as soon as possible.
Mayors are concerned that current infrastructure funding programs do not match the timelines and scale of needs, creating a gap between shared ambition and local delivery capacity.
“Mayors share the federal government’s ambition and
