Opinion: Time for a new national conversation about infrastructure Canada’s infrastructure is aging faster than it’s being maintained. The debate about how to address it is stuck. Not because the problem is unsolvable, but because we keep treating a systems failure as a funding debate. |
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Opinion: Time for a new national conversation about infrastructure
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Canada’s infrastructure is aging faster than it’s being maintained. The debate about how to address it is stuck. Not because the problem is unsolvable, but because we keep treating a systems failure as a funding debate.
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We need to stop having the same boring fights about infrastructure. The same headlines. The same panicky infrastructure deficit warnings. The same outrage about taxes. The same political theatre about who should pay for what.
These debates are now so routine they obscure the........