Jack Knox: Cost to build new Cowichan hospital soars by $559 million — and nobody blinks
It says something about how resigned we have become to inflation when A) $7 lettuce is seen as a bargain and B) a government construction project goes $559 million over budget and we barely shrug.
To put the increase in context, it is greater than the entire annual budgets of the ministries of environment, agriculture, labour and mental health and addictions combined. It would have paid for five Johnson Street Bridges. In our new pandemic world, though? Out-of-the-blue calamities come at us like the winged monkeys from the Wizard of Oz, spending plans get washed away like a Coquihalla bridge and we just say “of course they did.” Then we fix the screen door to keep out the locusts that we’re pretty sure are coming next.
Much of the rest of the new spending comes down to rising costs for furniture, medical equipment and the like.
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