OTTAWA - Canada's infrastructure minister says he expects Ottawa and most of the provinces to sign agreements in the next month to allow new infrastructure money to flow to cities.
The funding agreements are a key milestone in the government's new infrastructure program because the billions promised to municipalities can't reach them without provinces signing on the dotted line.
Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi laid out the framework of the agreements in letters to his provincial counterparts late last month.
Sohi says template agreements were sent to provinces and cities as well.
Sohi told two Senate committees Wednesday night that the pace of negotiations leads him to believe the majority of provinces will sign agreements by June, just in time for money to arrive by the summer construction season.
The Liberals pledged in the budget, flowing from a campaign promise, to double infrastructure spending over the next 10 years to bring the overall federal investment to $120 billion.
