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Keep Beating the Infrastructure Drum, says CCA President

March 15, 2013

With a highly anticipated federal budget on the horizon, the Canadian construction industry must continue delivering its message for long-term sustainable infrastructure funding, says the Canadian Construction Association's (CCA) president, reports Daily Commercial News Managing Editor Vince Versace. “You have to continue to tell the story over and over. Cabinets change, finance ministers change at all levels,” said Michael Atkinson, the CCA’s president, to attendees at the association’s 95th annual conference in La Malbaie, Que. Atkinson and Karen Leibovici, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), spoke at the conference about the federal long-term infrastructure plan in the context of this year’s federal budget. Leibovici said that the message from the FCM and partners, such as the CCA, to Parliament Hill has been a consistent. “It is the elements of the long-term plan that will make it work or not work and those elements are to ensure that the plan is stable, predictable and flexible,” she said. “And, it needs to recognize the requirement of partnership of all orders of government and the private sector.” CLICK HERE to read the full story in Daily Commercial News.

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