Over the first two weeks of the Closing the Gap campaign, RMA highlighted two core realities: rural municipalities manage the majority of Alberta’s transportation and utility infrastructure yet receive only a fraction of provincial infrastructure investment, despite these infrastructure assets powering 28% of Alberta’s GDP. This week, the campaign turns to a critical dimension of the challenge: resiliency.
Resiliency in rural infrastructure means economic resilience, climate adaptation, and long‑term structural strength. These qualities are essential to keeping Alberta’s economic engine running and ensuring the rural networks that support agriculture, energy, forestry, and emerging industries remain reliable under growing environmental and industrial pressures.
Proactive investment is how Alberta builds and maintains this resilience. Investing now prevents escalating costs, protects public safety, and ensures rural infrastructure can withstand severe weather and support economic growth. Resilience today protects Alberta’s competitiveness tomorrow.
Learn more about infrastructure resilience in Week 3 of our Closing the Gap campaign.
Joseph Kay
Policy Advisor
587.689.5484
joseph@rmalberta.com
Warren Noga
Manager of Policy and Research
825.319.2285
warren@rmalberta.com