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Unlike previous budgets, the government on Tuesday did not push any planned infrastructure spending to future years.

Even so, Ottawa has yet to complete even the first phase of its spending plan, which was meant to be rolled out in the first 18 months of the program. It has now been 36 months since the program was first announced.

Ottawa has so far spent $13.3 billion of the $14.4 billion planned under Phase 1, according to Tuesday’s budget. At least part of that lag has been blamed on reporting gaps from several federal departments, according to officials at the federal infrastructure ministry.

Overall, the government has now spent $19 billion of the total $190 billion planned over 12 years, which includes both Phase 1 and Phase 2 spending.

Also on Tuesday, the federal government hinted that the nascent Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) is mulling investments in hydropower and electrical transmission projects, saying it “has identified” such areas as key to its future spending plans.

“This includes projects that improve interconnections between provincial electricity grids,” it said.

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The bank is mandated to spend $35 billion over the next 12 years on green energy, public transit, and infrastructure related to trade and exports.

The bank has already been criticized for making investment decisions that appear to be politically motivated, after it announced a $1.28 billion loan for a Montreal light rail project last year, marking its first expenditure. In its mandate for the bank, the Liberal government pointed specifically to the Montreal project as a potential place that it could invest.