Paving Contract Estimates Falling Short, Not Over Budget: Heavy Civil Association

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Paving Contract Estimates Falling Short, Not Over Budget: Heavy Civil Association

The Executive Director of the Heavy Civil Association is responding to concerns by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation about cost overruns for paving contracts. The federation is frustrated with the provincial government after access to information requests yielded little information on the causes and frequency of such contracts going over budget. Jim Organ says just about all paving contracts from the Department of Transportation go out as “uni…