It might look like the provincial and federal governments are shoveling money off the back off a truck, but that's not the case, said community development minister Kevin Krueger.
“These are not silly projects, any of them,” he said this morning at a spending announcement with federal minister Stockwell Day. “None of this is money shoveled off the back of a truck, as a previous premier and a previous government once said. Nothing like that.”
The federal and provincial governments will provide $110 million to small communities in B.C. to pay for infrastructure like roads, bridges and water systems, Day said.
Already 41 projects have funding approved. The only one announced today is a $14.2 million contribution to a wastewater treatment plant that will be built, no doubt by pure coincidence, in Krueger's hometown of Kamloops.
That leaves some $98 million to be divided among the 40 remaining projects, or about $2.4 million each. Whether the cash is delivered by truck or wheelbarrow, expect every penny of it to be announced between now and the May 12 provincial election.
Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria. Reach him here.
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DPL
2 years ago
The man has no credibility
The man has no credibility at all. It should be interesting to see which ridings get the rest of the cash. I doubt Victoria will get much of anything. Politics is such a clean way to help out friends and folks who might just vote for the guys handing out the cash, wihtout the guys doing the handing out paying for any of the lolly
Curt
2 years ago
They're out of the gate ...
Must be eletion time! The goodies are starting.
(Isn't it the conservs who are also looking at privatizing (p3ing) some of our huge national assets. CN, etc. Yeah, just like the lieberals, paying off their friends.)
Skywalker
2 years ago
Shoveling money off the back of a truck...
...has too many witnesses. Its more like they slip it quietly to their friends while the rest of us provide the money.
Van Isle
2 years ago
Why would Krueger come up
Why would Krueger come up with a statememnt like that now? And he, of all people? Maybe he's making a smoke-screen for what the Liberals have been doing for the last 8 years? Is this the beginning of another bullshit artists spin,ie; the campaign is being moved up a notch?
North of Hope
2 years ago
Attack Ad
Community Development Minister Kevin Krueger should realize, if he doesn't remember, that it was Gordon Campbell who was on the back of the truck. He could refresh his mind by looking at the attack ad that the BC Liberals formulated back in !996. Too bad his memory doesn't work for the money they wasted on the convention center or the money they shovled into their own pockets.