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The Municipal Infrastructure Forum brings together local government, business, and professional associations to support the federal government's new, long-term infrastructure plan, and to ask how they can work together to build the roads, bridges, water and transportation systems Canada needs to support its families, businesses, and national economy.

• Ministerial correspondence - Pre-budget 2012
• News Release: FCM launches Municipal Infrastructure Forum

Federal government promises new infrastructure plan will deliver long-term solutions

On November 30, 2011, The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Region of Quebec, launched an infrastructure planning process. The new process promises to stop Canada's aging municipal infrastructure from declining. A growing partnership between all orders of government generated this process, which will culminate in a new long-term infrastructure plan.

"Our combined efforts in fighting the recession proved that governments work best when they work together," said FCM's President, Berry Vrbanovic. "Today's launch is one big step toward keeping common sense collaboration alive in Ottawa, and protecting core investments in Canada's infrastructure when today's programs expire in 2014."

FCM will provide information and updates related to the process for developing a long-term infrastructure plan for municipalities. Learn more about what FCM is doing to find common-sense, long-term solutions to the municipal infrastructure deficit.

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