Fayçal El-Khoury at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On April 29th, 2021. See this statement in context.

April 29th, 2021 / 4 p.m.

Liberal

Fayçal El-Khoury Liberal Laval—Les Îles, QC

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Good afternoon to our guests.

Ms. Saxe, you are a civil engineer, so I would like to talk about social infrastructure. The government has adopted existing programs to meet the needs of communities in these difficult times, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We have made municipal and provincial buildings eligible for the new COVID-19 resilience component. Minister McKenna has already approved hundreds of projects under this component, such as hospital and school renovations.

Can you speak to the importance of social infrastructure so that all levels of government work together to serve Canadians from coast to coast to coast?

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