Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault makes a funding announcement at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden in Ottawa on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024.
The environment minister's comments on funding road construction were clumsy.
That explanation didn't fully explain how the Liberal government views investments in road infrastructure. But the government's political opponents have already heard enough. "Building more roads consistently results in more traffic," the U.S. study's authors wrote. "In short, traffic expands to fill the new lanes within a few short years, bringing with it more pollution."WATCH: The environment minister's infrastructure comments, explainedEnvironment Minister Steven Guilbeault said at an event in Montreal on Monday that the federal government 'has made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure.
But a blanket statement against new road construction risks — both politically and practically — discounting rural and suburban areas where roads are the best or only option. Roads also tend to be quite popular among many of the people who rely on them."In many ways, the minister walked into a hornet's nest here," Matti Siemiatycki, director of the Infrastructure Institute at the University of Toronto, told CBC News this week.
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