Author: Marzio Pelù

New housing: skyrocketing costs for infrastructure, but there’s a way. All the details in the report “A Jump Start”

TORONTO – Canada needs to build more homes and it needs to do it as fast as possible. But there is a… “but”: this will imply the need to increase spending on municipal infrastructure like roads, sewers, water mains, public transport, schools, parks, fire stations… and according to the report “A Jump Start” by former city manager and Ontario deputy minister Michael Fenn and the Canadian Urban Institute (funded by the Canada Infrastructure Bank), the average cost of such infrastructure could exceed $100,000 for each newly built home (you can download and/or read the whole report here: A-Jump-Start).

Immigration, “rain” of (federal) millions of dollars over Quebec

OTTAWA – Persistence pays off. And the premier of Quebec, François Legault, after having asked for months 1 billion dollars to the federal government  in compensation for having “welcomed over half a million temporary immigrants”, obtained $ 750 million. A nice figure to cover the expenditure that Quebec would have incurred for social services to support migrants from 2021 to 2023.