Why is Canada's infrastructure so bad?

It quickly becomes apparent to almost everyone how poor and rickety the infrastructure is in Canada.

This certainly applies to the roads, which are often of an old-fashioned design and are usually full of holes.

But it also applies to the power supply that keeps failing because a tree has fallen on an overhead power line somewhere.

The drinking water supply is also below standard. There are often water shortages and then rationing follows - but even the water quality leaves much to be desired. And the pipes, they keep breaking because they are so old and rotten.

That even mobile telephony is so rickety, that is really strange. That is modern technology - but that too is under-measured and not available in large parts of the country. Often not even in the suburbs or fairly close to the big cities.

Many hospitals and government buildings are also in poor condition.

For Canadians, it is practically a matter of course that buildings, roads and other facilities are used up to the point of collapse.

People generally don't really feel the need to improve things until there is absolutely no way around it.

This means that people are constantly lagging behind with maintenance schedules, which leads to many additional problems in daily use.

Regular maintenance is often announced as an improvement project, while it is not at all.

It costs money to bury the power lines. And it also costs a ton of money to keep the water pipes up to date.

That's what it actually comes down to. People just don't feel like investing in things that they can only use later.

The entire political system revolves around the little successes that can be enjoyed immediately. You can see that in the rickety infrastructure.

Because everything is always done as cheaply as possible, long-term quality is hard to find. No wonder that everything breaks, again and again.