The Infrastructure Funding Gap: How Are Municipalities Managing?

Infrastructure is essential in enabling cities to deliver services, stimulating the growth of our economy and improving the quality of life in our communities. Yet, in 2007, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities released a report estimating that the municipal infrastructure funding gap was $123 billion. How are cities managing? This seminar explored the infrastructure asset management tools used by municipalities in Canada. IMFG Graduate Fellowship winner Daniella Dávila Aquije profiled the City of Mississauga, and the strategies it has implemented to address the deficit.

SPEAKER

Daniella Dávila Aquije is a graduate student at the School of Public Policy and Governance. She graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and will be pursuing a Master’s in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford next year. Daniella has worked as a policy intern in the City Manager’s Office at the City of Mississauga. She is the 2013-14 Blanche and Sandy Van Ginkel Graduate Fellow at the Institute of Municipal Finance and Governance.