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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
Shouldn't most infrastructure spending be done by the provincial and local governments? I hate the idea of the Federal government overtaxing and then handing the money back to the provinces conditionally.
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Probably, but that doesn't disqualify the feds from also earmarking dough for large infrastructure projects.
Trans Canada, education investments, energy infrastructure, telecommunications infrastructure, shipping, rail and sea ports, military and coastguard expansion, healthcare infrastructure.
But they can also do things like decrease tuition costs, underwrite more pragmatic social policies and make key research and development investments, incorporate psychiatric care into universal healthcare, etc etc.