The Lethbridge's candidates' promises on Infrastructure

Infrastructure Blockades

Geoffrey Capp

Infrastructure that is to the benefit of Canadians by using our own resources is in the interests of all provinces to support. It is illogical for Quebec to block Cdn. oil and gas, yet import such products from many nations that violate human rights. Much oil comes from Muslim nations that restrict women's rights and persecute/execute homosexuals, yet no ethical objections are raised to that oil!

Conservative

Make it illegal for protesters to block key infrastructure facilities or public transportation systems, like railways, with either summary conviction or indictment as punishment.

We don't have any Liberal policies on Infrastructure Blockades.

We don't have any NDP policies on Infrastructure Blockades.

Infrastructure Funding

Geoffrey Capp

CHP candidate in your district

Immediately after World War II, the Cdn. government financed major infrastructure works using no-interest loans from the Bank of Canada. It generated economic activity that produced taxes to pay the loans back, and touched off the longest-lasting period of growth and prosperity in our history. The CHP would reinstate this, rather than borrow from commercial banks that now earn billions in profits!

The loans would be made to governments and crown corporations, and could be used to repair the crumbling infrastructure from the last time this program was used up to the end of the 1960s. Work necessitates workers and contractors and equipment, so equipment is made and sold, workers are hired, they get paid, they buy homes and go on vacations, and income taxes, property taxes and sales taxes are collected to help pay the loans back. Win, win, win!

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Conservative

Shut down the Canada Infrastructure Bank and commit its funds to infrastructure projects such as Public-Private Partnerships.

We will continue already committed projects and return to the successful model used in the last Conservative government of working in partnership with provinces, municipalities, and First Nations to encourage the use of Public-Private Partnerships.

— Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18

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We don't have any Liberal policies on Infrastructure Funding.

NDP

Devote funding to public infrastructure.
Use Community Benefit agreements to guarantee jobs, training, apprenticeships, & support for local businesses as part of infrastructure projects.

Our vision is one where communities can afford to build the infrastructure they need to thrive, from roads and bridges to community centres, long-term care, child care centres and everything in between. These investments will create good jobs in every part of the country; and to get there, we will partner with provinces, territories, First Nations and municipalities to deliver reliable public infrastructure funding that puts people – not profit – first. By using Community Benefit Agreements, we will guarantee that good jobs, training, apprenticeships and support for local businesses are part of every infrastructure project.

— Ready for Better, retrieved 2021-08-27

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Internet Infrastructure

Geoffrey Capp

CHP candidate in your district

Huawei and other Chinese-made products for 5G should be prohibited from Canada, consistent with our allies in Britain and (at least to now) the United States. Even the possibility that 5G allows infiltration and information gathering negates any other consideration. Prohibiting Chinese-made products is also the appropriate response to their vindictive arrests of the two Michaels.

Conservative

Connect all of Canada to high-speed internet by 2025.
Accelerate the plan to get rural broadband built.
Speed up the spectrum auction process and apply "use it or lose" provisions.
Disallow the use of Huawei equipment.

Liberal

Require that those who have purchased rights to build broadband actually do so.

Require those that have purchased the rights to build broadband actually do so. With this use it or lose it approach, Canada’s large national carriers will be required to accelerate the roll-out of wireless and high-speed internet in rural and northern Canada by progressively meeting broadband access milestones between now and 2025. If these milestones are not met, we will mandate the resale of spectrum rights and reallocate that capacity to smaller, regional providers.

— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02

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NDP

Declare high-speed Internet as an essential service.
Give every Canadian, including those in rural areas, access to affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband within 4 years.
Take steps to create a Crown corporation to deliver quality, affordable telecom services.

Expanding cell coverage and delivering reliable, affordable broadband internet to every community in Canada is vital to the economic future of rural Canada and remote communities. But it has been ignored by successive governments for far too long. That’s why we believe that we need to act urgently to close the digital divide now, not ten years from now as the Liberal government proposed. We are committed to declaring high-speed internet an essential service and making sure that every Canadian has access to affordable, reliable high-speed broadband within four years. This will include taking the first steps to create a Crown corporation to ensure the delivery of quality, affordable telecom services to every community.

— Ready for Better, retrieved 2021-08-27

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Municipal Proposals

Conservative

Remove requirement for the infrastructure municipalities and First Nations are building to be green for it to receive federal funding.

We don't have any Liberal policies on Municipal Proposals.

We don't have any NDP policies on Municipal Proposals.

Northern Infrastructure

Conservative

Build the Grays Bay Port and Road Project, connecting Nunavut & NWT.
Build the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Line.
Complete the Tuktoyaktuk road and port & pursue an Arctic Gateway policy across the Canadian North.
Build a large-scale project to provide clean power to the Yukon, developed in partnership with the Yukon Government.

We don't have any Liberal policies on Northern Infrastructure.

NDP

Create a Northern Infrastructure Fund to fast-track investment & improve infrastructure like roads & broadband Internet for northern communities.

Small Craft Harbours

Conservative

Double annual funding for small craft harbours.

We don't have any Liberal policies on Small Craft Harbours.

We don't have any NDP policies on Small Craft Harbours.

Trans-Canada Trail

Conservative

Provide $12.5 million per year to continue building the Trans-Canada Trail.

Liberal

Increase annual funding for the Trans-Canada Trail to $13 million.

Continue building and connecting the TransCanada Trail, and creating new opportunities for Canadians to access it, by increasing annual funding to $13 million, growing the trail network by 10% helping create 10,000 jobs over the next five years.

— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02

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We don't have any NDP policies on Trans-Canada Trail.