Département de science politique
Faculté des sciences sociales

Université Laval

Over the next decade, we will quadruple federal investment in public transit, investing almost $20 billion more in transit infrastructure.

Real Change: A New Plan For a Strong Middle Class (page 12)

« To improve and expand public transit systems across Canada, the government in Budget 2016 committed to an initial investment of $3.4 billion over three years, through the new Public Transit Infrastructure Fund. »

 « In the coming months, the government will continue to work to ensure the successful implementation of Phase 1 investments in support of public transit infrastructure, and will announce further details on the allocations for the new $25.3 billion investment in public transit through Budget 2017. »

(A Plan for Middle Class Progress : Fall Economic Statement, October 27, 2016)

Table A2.17 Budget 2016 Infrastructure Investments – Updated Profile

(Equality Growth - A Strong Middle Class page 352, February 27, 2018)

Transit investments maintained in federal budget as long-term national transit infrastructure program prepares for launch (CUTA, March 1, 2018)

Political promise

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