Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers are calling for a meeting with Justin Trudeau to discuss infrastructure funding.
Gathered in Winnipeg for the annual meeting of the Council of the Federation, the leaders of the provinces and territories insisted on the urgency of stepping on the accelerator.
Housing, health, education, transport: the needs are “really enormous”, insisted Prime Minister François Legault during the closing press conference of the event on Wednesday.
“We are asking to have a meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada to discuss infrastructure funding. The demand is great,” he said in his opening statement.
They insisted on the fact that structuring programs and policies must be in place if Canada hopes to compete with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of Joe Biden in the United States.
“It is more important than ever that we work together to find the means to update our infrastructures in the provinces and territories,” argued Premier Legault.
This summit requested by the Council of the Federation would be comparable to the one it requested for several months on another file, that of health.