After decades of complacency by goverments at all levels, there are growing signs that this nation's second great infrastructure boom is upon US.

Whether it will be a boom of historic nation-building proportions like the first one has yes to be seen, but the opportunity exsists right now for Canada to rebuild and reposition its public core infrastructure to meet the social and economic challenges of 21st century.

In the 1950's and 60's Canada built the public infrastructure components that would fuel economic growth for the last half of the 20th century. Highways were built to carry traffic that wouldn't be there for another 20 years, Sewers and Watermains were installed to service what would become suburan sprawl over the coming decades. Massive hydroelectric and nuclear power developments would support  future production of the manufacturing, missing and other key industries. It was a time for mega projects like the St. Lawrence Seaway, James Bay and the Alaka Highway.

Starting in the 1970's Canadian's attentions turned to other things and for the next 30 years a world-class public infrastructure was neglected. Public investment showeed a steadily decline, very little new capacity was added and the existing inventory was not maintained to standard. As the economy continued to thrive, the core infrastucture that underpins it struggled to keep up.

Only in the last few years have goverments begun to acknowledge the inadequacy of public infrastucture to support Canada's economic growth and social develpoment into the future.Provincial goverments have led the way with gradual increase in their infrastructure investments. Municipalities absolutely recognize the imperative, but are limited in their

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