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Federal Help with Infrastructure Critical to Trade, B.C. Premier Eby Says
Premier David Eby warns that flooding-induced choke points on Highway 1 risk disrupting months of cross-Canada trade without federal infrastructure investment, officials say.
- On Dec. 17, 2025, British Columbia Premier David Eby urged the federal government to invest in provincial transportation infrastructure to prevent long-term impacts on cross-Canada trade.
- After the Nooksack River burst its banks last week, major flooding closed stretches of Highway 1 through the Fraser Valley, and Eby warned long-term risks could disrupt trade.
- Eby met with the federal government's major projects office Wednesday and raised work on trade-enabling infrastructure such as Highway 1 and the Massey Tunnel, noting four B.C. nation-building projects.
- The premier warned that unresolved infrastructure problems could prompt more companies like Saskatchewan-based Nutrien to bypass B.C. via Washington state, while Eby noted Ottawa’s $60 billion spent on Montreal-Ottawa travel contrasts with needed flood-mitigation to avoid months-long trade disruptions.
- Eby plans to raise transportation infrastructure as a priority at the premiers' meeting this week with Prime Minister Mark Carney, urging the federal government to address bottlenecks with focus and real push.
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Federal help with infrastructure, critical to trade, B.C. Premier Eby says
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