Saint-Prime, (Québec), November 21, 2011 – The Honourable Denis Lebel, Member of Parliament for Roberval–Lac-Saint-Jean, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, and Laurent Lessard, Quebec Minister of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy, took the opportunity of today’s official inauguration of the new Centre Récréatif Quatre-Temps in Saint-Prime to announce that the municipality received $1,033,104 in joint government funding under the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund – Quebec (BCF-Q) to carry out the project.
“It is a proven fact that sports and recreation play an important role in promoting the health and well-being of the population. It is for this reason that the Government of Canada supports projects for the construction of public sports and recreational facilities like this Centre Récréatif Quatre-Temps,” said Minister Lebel.
“I am pleased to take part in this inauguration of Saint-Prime’s new multi-purpose centre. This infrastructure will allow citizens to take part in physical and recreational activities in a safe environment, which in turn will help foster the maintenance of good health and well-being among the population. Our government has made health a key priority and is very well aware of the ripple effect a centre like this can have on the practice of sports and recreation. I hope this new facility becomes a place where the community comes together not only to play sports but to take part in a wide variety of sporting, cultural and social events,” added Minister Lessard.
The project involved replacing the municipality’s former recreation centre, which had become unsafe and no longer able to meet the population’s needs, with a new 692 square-metre multi-purpose centre equipped with a multi-use hall with kitchen, restaurant area, locker rooms, bathroom facilities and a garage for the storage of skating rink maintenance equipment.
Strategically located near other municipal recreational facilities, soccer fields, an outdoor skating rink, schools and a daycare centre, this new infrastructure is expected to rapidly become a central hub of sports, social, recreational and cultural activities for Saint-Prime’s 2,640 some residents.
Under the BCF-Q, the governments of Quebec and Canada each contributed $516,552 toward the project, for a total of $1,033,104 in joint government funding, with the municipality of Saint‑Prime investing the remaining $516,552.
The project also benefited from an additional $200,000 in funding through the Government of Quebec’s Programme d’infrastructures Québec-Municipalités for the completion of various infrastructure works.
The Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund – Quebec is a cost-sharing initiative aimed at funding infrastructure projects in communities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants. These communities are thus able to use this assistance to build or modernize infrastructure in major need of revitalization, including water treatment plants, water supply systems and cultural and sports centres.
The contribution from the Government of Canada was awarded through Canada’s Economic Action Plan. To learn more about this plan, visit www.actionplan.gc.ca.
For further information on the Government of Quebec’s Quebec Infrastructure Plan, see www.infrastructures.gouv.qc.ca.
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Sources :
Pierre Floréa
Press Secretary
Office of the Honourable Denis Lebel
Canada Economic Development
Tel.: 514-496-1282
Email: pierre.florea@tc.gc.ca
Julie Boivin
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy
Tel.: 418-691-2050
Caroline St-Pierre
Communications Branch
Department of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy
Tel.: 418-691-2015
