The Trudeau Government has promised to spend $60-billion in additional money on infrastructure over 10 years, split evenly between public transit, green infrastructure and social infrastructure.
Donna Reardon, who chairs the Transit Commission in Saint John, is hoping some of that money comes to Saint John for public transit which has sustained years of cuts.
Reardon says with transit it’s like the chicken and the egg, If you reduce the service, you wind up with fewer riders, but you will not be able to attract more passengers until you make the service better.
She says public transit, at one time, had been one of Common Council’s priorities but then got trumped by roads, water and recreation.
The First Nations are expecting good things from the Trudeau Government’s first budget.
The National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Dwight Dorey says it’s time for Prime Minister Trudeau to “walk the walk”.
Dorey says more federal resources are needed in order to improve the quality of life of Indigenous peoples.
