So why do we need to build new infrastructure when the city and provincial governments don't have the money to repair the infrastucture that is already in place?  In Toronto, there are pot holes in the cracked and broken roads. The Gardiner expressway is falling apart. "Social housing" needs major repairs.  

Electricity and water are becoming unaffordable due to the costs of adding "new" infrastructure to those systems.  People are already having trouble paying their electricity bills.  They don't need more on-going costs to maintain even more costly new infrastructure.