OTTAWA — Parliamentary budget officer Jean-Denis Frechette’s latest report on the Liberal government’s infrastructure spending program highlights further delays in the spending plan. Here are some key numbers from the report:<\/p>\n
$186.7 billion<\/b>: Value of federal infrastructure spending over 12 years<\/p>\n
$14.4 billion<\/b>: Value of spending under the first phase of the infrastructure program<\/p>\n
32<\/b>: Federal organizations responsible for Phase 1 of infrastructure spending<\/p>\n
10,052<\/b>: Projects identified by the PBO report, which qualified the total by saying it is not a full inventory of Phase 1 projects<\/p>\n
$7.2 billion:<\/b> Value of those projects, about half of the total planned spending<\/p>\n
8,800:<\/b> Projects approved in fiscal year 2016-17<\/p>\n
1,300:<\/b> Projects approved in fiscal year 2017-18<\/p>\n
1,667:<\/b> Approved projects that to do not have a federal contribution identified<\/p>\n
6,000:<\/b> Projects with identifiable start dates<\/p>\n
1,300:<\/b> Projects that are scheduled to begin after 2018<\/p>\n
0.1:<\/b> Per cent increase in GDP in each of the two fiscal years covered in the report<\/p>\n
11,100:<\/b> Maximum estimated number of jobs federal infrastructure spending has created between April 2017 and March 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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