Today’s post by Aidan Horn examines two ways of aggregating provincial infrastructure spending. The first covers core infrastructure activities such as planning, construction, maintenance, and management, while the second takes a broader view that also includes administrative support—corporate services, personnel, safety, research, development, and special programmes. Without adjusting for inflation, infrastructure spending has fallen sharply over the past five years—particularly under the expanded definition—and is projected to remain flat over the next few years.
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