Opinion: Polytechnics train workers for next-generation infrastructure

Canada’s economy is inextricably linked to our infrastructure – and it’s always been so.
Our nation and its economy would have developed very differently were it not for the construction of a transcontinental railway just 14 years after Confederation in 1867.
On the eve of Canada’s 150th anniversary, the country and the economy look vastly different than they did in 1881 when the first trains rolled from Montreal to British Columbia, by way of Kicking Horse Pass