Manitoba: Government Infrastructure Investment Spending in Fiscal 2014–15

This briefing looks at the impacts of the Manitoba government’s $1.04-billion infrastructure spending plan in the 2014–15 fiscal year.

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Signal49 Research used its macroeconometric model of Manitoba’s economy to quantify the impact of real infrastructure investment in 2014–15. And it found that the $1.04-billion investment lifted GDP by $1.31 billion and boosted employment by 9,755 person-years. The core infrastructure spending also helped boost provincial exports and household consumption.