Modern and efficient roadways are crucial to encouraging and supporting economic activity, facilitating trade, and creating good paying, middle-class jobs. The governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island are investing in roads and highways that will make it easier and safer to move people and products across the province, while supporting sustained economic growth.

“Better roads and highways benefit all Canadians. These road improvement projects will create efficient and safer transportation routes and bridges for PEI residents and businesses, extending the use of the overall road network for decades to come.”

The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, on behalf of the Honourable Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Rural Economic Development

“Prince Edward Island's roads need work and $215 million over four years will allow us to make comprehensive improvements that benefit all Islanders. From bridges to asphalt, investing in infrastructure is an investment in the growth of our communities and the safety of our people.”

The Honourable Steven Myers, Prince Edward Island Minister of Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy Government of Prince Edward Island

• Through the Investing in Canada infrastructure plan, the Government of Canada is investing 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.

• More than $10.1 billion of this funding will support trade and transportation projects, including $5 billion that will be available for investment through the Canada Infrastructure Bank.

• These investments complement the Atlantic Growth Strategy, a federal-provincial action plan aimed at stimulating economic growth in the region through five priority areas: 

  • Skilled workforce/Immigration;
  • Innovation;
  • Clean growth and climate change;
  • Trade and investment;
  • Infrastructure.

• On June 27, 2019, the Government of Canada launched two new strategies: Canada’s Connectivity Strategy, which commits to connect all Canadians to high-speed internet, and Canada’s first Rural Economic Development Strategy, which will spur economic growth and create good, middle class jobs for rural Canadians across the country.

• The Rural Economic Development Strategy leverages ongoing federal investments and provides a vision for the future, identifying practical steps to take in the short term, and serving as a foundation to guide further work.

• Central to Canada’s Connectivity Strategy are historic new investments that are mobilizing up to $6 billion toward universal connectivity. They include a top-up to the Connect to Innovate Program, a new Universal Broadband Fund, and investments from the Canada Infrastructure Bank.

Related products

• Backgrounder: Improvements to PEI’s highway system will benefit residents and visitors with safer, more efficient roads and bridges

Associated links

• Investing in Canada: Canada's Long-Term Infrastructure Plan
• Investing in Canada plan project map
• Federal infrastructure investments in Prince Edward Island
• Rural Opportunity, National Prosperity: An Economic Development Strategy for Rural Canada
• Atlantic Growth Strategy

Emilie Simard
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Rural Economic Development
613-864-7690
emilie.simard3@canada.ca

Katie MacDonald
Communications Officer
Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy
902-314-3996
katiemacdonald@gov.pe.ca  

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