Minister confident Ottawa’s funding for P.E.I. road upgrades will continue [Video]

P.E.I.’s transportation and infrastructure minister said he’s been assured that federal funding for road improvements will continue on the Island following controversial comments from Canada’s environment minister.

Questions were raised about Ottawa’s commitment to funding road construction projects after remarks from federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault last week. 

Guilbeault suggested the federal government has decided to “stop investing in new road infrastructure,” a statement he later walked back by saying Ottawa would be putting up cash only for “large projects.”

While he was pleased that clarification came, provincial Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Ernie Hudson said the statements raised concerns about future road improvement projects in P.E.I. 

After the federal Environment minister said Ottawa would “stop investing in new road infrastructure,” comments that he later walked back, P..E.I. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Ernie Hudson says he’ll continue advocating for the partnership to continue.

“It’s extremely important to have that [federal] partnership, but I have to stress too that under those previous programs, all of those …