Mr. Taki Sarantakis at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On September 28th, 2011. See this statement in context.

September 28th, 2011 / 4:15 p.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Communications Branch, Infrastructure Canada

Prior to 2006, the main funding instrument for transit was the Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund. That fund in total had about $4.3 billion, and I believe about $1.5 billion of that went towards transit. So the quantum is significantly higher today.

Prior to that period, there was virtually no funding of public transit historically by the Government of Canada. The Government of Canada basically started entering into public infrastructure in transit in 1993.

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