Nova Scotia’s rebuilding effort will be competing for labour with ongoing construction projects – driving up prices and extending timelines, Public Works Minister says
The desire to quickly rebuild after post-tropical storm Fiona is running up against challenges that existed before the hurricane-force winds left a trail of destruction in Nova Scotia: the rising cost of construction material and widespread skilled labour shortages.
The government said last week in an economic update that capital spending on highways and other infrastructure will cost $73 million more than budgeted for the 2022-23 fiscal year. “We’ll need to look at the jobs that are most crucial, most important, and we will have to focus on repairing those first,” Masland said.
“And then of course construction projects are booming, so throw in a hurricane on top of that and we’ve got some real, real problems,” Williams said. A lot of projects in the Halifax area, he added, have “crawled to a snail’s pace” because of labour shortages.
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