Modern and up-to-date community infrastructure helps connect people to jobs and provides access to better community services, attracts new businesses and creates economic growth.

“Through the federal Gas Tax Fund, communities across New Brunswick and the rest of Canada can direct federal funding to the infrastructure projects that address the most pressing needs of local residents and businesses, from improving drinking water to building new recreational facilities. The Government of Canada is proud to deliver this predictable, long-term funding to help ensure access to good middle class jobs, increased mobility, greater economic opportunities, sustainable communities and a high quality of life for all Canadians.”

The Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities

"The Gas Tax Fund in an important funding mechanism that helps our government support local infrastructure needs and ensures communities can advance their own priorities. These investments also create jobs, and help our government address overarching challenges such as mitigating the effects of climate change, ensuring clean water and wastewater, and creating sustainable communities that are well positioned for economic growth."

The Honourable Serge Rousselle, New Brunswick Minister of Environment and Local Government

• Since the program was first introduced in 2005, over $473 million has been provided to New Brunswick communities through the federal Gas Tax Fund.

• The federal Gas Tax Fund makes over $2 billion available each year, and through it provides each community across Canada with a permanent, predictable and indexed source of long-term funding. The funding is made available in two annual installments, one in July and one by the end of March..

• The federal Gas Tax Fund offers significant flexibility. Local communities can make strategic investments across 18 different project categories, including roads and bridges, public transit, drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, and recreational facilities. Communities can use the funds immediately for priority projects, bank the funds for later use, pool the dollars with other communities for shared infrastructure projects or use it to finance major infrastructure expenditures. 

• The Government of Canada will invest more than $180 billion over 12 years in public transit projects, green infrastructure, social infrastructure, trade and transportation routes, and Canada’s rural and northern communities.

Related Products

• Federal Gas Tax allocations for New Brunswick communities in 2017-18

Associated Links

• More on the federal Gas Tax Fund
• More on the federal Gas Tax Fund in New Brunswick
• Investing in Canada, the Government of Canada’s new $180 billion infrastructure plan

Brook Simpson
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
613-219-0149
Brook.Simpson@canada.ca

Sheila Lagacé
Communications Director
Department of Environment and Local Government
506-444-4088
Sheila.lagace@gnb.ca

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