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pick one contemporary issue facing the city, summarise its history, and contextualise the current debate.
You should identify the various parties involved in the issue, summarise their arguments, and highlight what motivates their agenda(s).
Ultimately, you must pick a side and argue how you would resolve the problem and why your course of action is appropriate, while addressing the various stakeholders’ concerns.
The issue may be found locally in the Halifax area, somewhere else in Canada, or even at the global level. Provide both media coverage of the topic (including social media if present) along with peer-reviewed literature that situates the issue within the academic discourse
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Running Head: CONTEMPORARY URBAN ISSUES
Contemporary Urban Issues
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Contemporary Urban Issues
Introduction
After so many years of issues concerning the building and maintaining Canada
Infrastructure due to problems such as underfunding or lack of sufficient funds being given to the
infrastructure sector of Canada, the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau says that his main
aim is to restore and increase the level of investment in private and public infrastructure
(Himmel, & Siemiatycki, 2017). In regards to this, the main stakeholders in this debate include
Yale Insights who went ahead and communicated with Amarjeet Sohi, who was the first minister
of infrastructure and communities in Canada about how the government is going to approach this
issue.
In I950s, it was evident that Canada had spent a lot of money on the development of
infrastructure which was about 3% of the gross domestic product. But as time went by, this kind
of spending went down to about 0.4% of the gross domestic product (Himmel, & Siemiatycki,
2017). This led to a great problem in Canada because, by the year 2015, the money that was
needed to repair the damages on the public and private infrastructures amounted to a sum that
was about $200 billion or more according to Canada’s Federal Municipality. Despite the low
level of interest rates, the government of Canada was still reluctant to borrow money for the
funding of roads, railway lines, and bridge construction.
In August 2015, according to the Winnipeg Free Press, Dan Lett stated that the Prime
Minister who was Stephen Harper had failed to come up with a constructive plan that will help to
solve the significant problem in infrastructure damages. He also stated that the government was
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not able to spend the amount of money that they had previously budgeted for the public and
private infrastructure restoration.
A few weeks later after this accusation by Dan Lett, Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau
was the main opponent to Stephen Harper came up with a plan that will increase the level of
infrastructure spending which actually doubled from the previous $65 billion to a significant
amount of $125 billion. Justin Trudeau stated that it is the government’s role to ensure that it has
made better decisions in favor of the public community. He...
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