Docs show Liberals push off millions in infrastructure spending to next year
OTTAWA — The Liberal government won’t be able to spend hundreds of millions in infrastructure money this year, instead moving the planned spending to next year.
Spending documents released Tuesday show that $828 million that was budgeted to be spent this year on the Liberals’ new infrastructure plan will be moved over to the coming fiscal year that begins April 1.
That amount represents about one quarter of the $3.27 billion budgeted to be spent on new and existing infrastructure programs in the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
The figure doesn’t include $282 million that Public Services and Procurement Canada and Fisheries and Oceans had planned to spend on federal infrastructure projects in this fiscal year. Nor does it include $24.4 million being carried over from a national program to upgrade community and cultural centres as part of Canada 150 celebrations.