Residents in Eastern Ontario to benefit from a safer drive with local road improvements and bridge repairs
News release
Renfrew, Ontario, August 22, 2019—Investing in modern transportation infrastructure is vital to connecting communities and ensuring that Canadians get to work, school and essential services on time and back home safely at the end of a long day.
Today, the Honourable Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Rural Economic Development, announced funding for ten road and bridge improvement projects in Eastern Ontario.
The municipalities of Madawaska, North Algona Wilberforce, Renfrew, Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan, Tay Valley, North Frontenac, Drummond-North Elmsley, and Admaston/Bromley will see significant reconstruction and rehabilitation projects on their roadways. In addition, repairs and replacement of key components will be carried out on bridges in Brockville and in the Carleton Place.
These ten projects will improve roads and bridges, and provide added safety to drivers and pedestrians.
The Government of Canada is investing more than $10.4 million in the ten projects through the Rural and Northern Communities Infrastructure Stream of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure plan. The Province of Ontario will contribute over $6.4 million with municipalities responsible for the remaining project costs.
Quotes
“Improving transportation infrastructure helps ensure that Canadians have more time to spend with their families every day. Once complete, these important road projects in Eastern Ontario will result in safer and more efficient roadways for residents and visitors.”
The Honourable Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Rural Economic Development
“The Town of Renfrew is thrilled at the announced funding through the Investing in Canada Infrastructure plan. These funds will be put towards a project to reconstruct two streets in our Town that will help our community to be inclusive, sustainable and resilient while fostering long term economic growth opportunities for years to come.”
Don Eady, Mayor of the Town of Renfrew
Quick facts
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Through the Investing in Canada infrastructure plan, the Government of Canada is investing more than $180 billion over 12 years in public transit projects, green infrastructure, social infrastructure, trade and transportation routes, and Canada’s rural and northern communities.
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$2 billion of this funding is supporting infrastructure projects that meet the unique needs of rural and northern communities like facilities to support food security, local access roads and enhanced broadband connectivity.
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The federal share of investments for communities with fewer than 5,000 residents covers 60% of the total costs.
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More than $10.1 billion of this funding is supporting trade and transportation projects, including $5 billion available for investment through the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
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On June 27, 2019, the Government of Canada launched two new strategies: Canada’s Connectivity Strategy, which commits to connect all Canadians to high-speed internet, and Canada’s first Rural Economic Development Strategy, which will spur economic growth and create good, middle class jobs for rural Canadians across the country.
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The Rural Economic Development Strategy leverages ongoing federal investments and provides a vision for the future, identifying practical steps to take in the short term, and serving as a foundation to guide further work.
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Central to Canada’s Connectivity Strategy are historic new investments that are mobilizing up to $6 billion toward universal connectivity. They include a top-up to the Connect to Innovate Program, a new Universal Broadband Fund, and investments from the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
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