As flood waters rise in Quebec, Ottawa offers fast-track reviews for assistance projects GlobePolitics
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The thinking was that every dollar spent on building infrastructure to divert floodwater, for example, would save countless more in reconstruction costs. A 2016 report from the parliamentary budget office predicted federal disaster-assistance payments, to help deal with damage, could hit $900-million next year.Many of the communities facing flooding now also suffered floods in 2017.
Champagne wouldn’t speculate about why some provinces or cities haven’t applied for funding in Quebec and New Brunswick, saying instead that he wants to make sure everyone who could use the funding is aware it exists. In the lead up to the program’s launch in late 2017, Infrastructure Canada officials feared they would be forced to delay planned spending, warning in one briefing note that a “low number of projects” could start within a year of being approved.They considered looking at how shovel-ready a project was in deciding which ones to recommend for approval and which would fall to the bottom of the pile.
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