Transport Committee Passes Motion for Environment Minister to Testify on ‘No More’ Roads Comment

The Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities Committee unanimously passed a Conservative motion for Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault to appear as a witness within two weeks, following his controversial comments that the federal government would no longer invest in road infrastructure. “We believe that this committee needs to discuss this matter on an urgent basis,” Conservative MP Mark Strahl, who introduced the motion, said at the outset of the Feb. 21 committee meeting. “These were comments that were given to a conference. These were prepared remarks by the minister of the environment designed to send a message to Canadians.” The vote was made in response to Mr. Guilbeault’s statement on Feb. 12 that Ottawa had made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure. “Of course, we will continue to be there for cities, provinces, and territories to maintain the existing network, but there will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge the road network,” he said during a conference on public transit in Montreal....