Infrastructure Spending in the Canadian 2009 Stimulus Budget

8 April 2009 Geoff Zeiss

ReNew Canada has a listing
 of some of the largest projects funded under the 2009 federal stimulus budget. 

Also there is a summary of the list of 1000 “shovel-ready” projects, in total worth an estimated $13 billion, compiled by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM).  The largest items are C$2.7 billion for water and wastewater, C$7.6 billion for public transit, and C$2.0 billion for roads and bridges.

The President of the FCM and the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities have issued an open letter to municipal governments outlining two stimulus programs open to them.

$4-BILLION INFRASTRUCTURE STIMULUS FUND

The $4-billion Infrastructure Stimulus Fund provides funding to provincial, territorial, municipal,community and private sector construction-ready infrastructure projects. The focus is on rehabilitation of existing assets. Eligible projects will need to be built over the next two construction seasons, and completed by March 31, 2011.

$1-BILLION GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FUND

The $1-billion Green Infrastructure Fund will provide $1 billion over five years for infrastructure that supports green infrastructure projects with a focus on sustainable energy.

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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