Ottawa launches $14-billion infrastructure fund Prime Minister Stephen Harper fired the starting pistol on a $14-billion spending spree on infrastructure, announcing the long-awaited details on a Building Canada Fund first mentioned in last year’s budget.
Though the fund covers the next 10 years, Canada’s provinces, cities and towns will be pushing to carve up the funding as soon as possible in order to cover the cost of large construction projects like highways and transit that could run over several years.