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Federal gas tax gift to municipal budgets The federal gas tax fund applies to all municipalities in Canada while the provin- cial gas tax fund provides grants to munici- palities which have public transit programs. The sole condition for the gas tax grants is that the money goes towards local infras- tructure needs, including upgrading aging roads and bridges.
and regular funding.” This year’s $5,503,372 federal gas tax al- location for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell is divided up between the ninemunicipalities in the riding and the UCPR. The counties will receive $2,595,854; Russell Township, $463,557; Champlain Township, $260,647; Clarence-Rockland, $704,898; Casselman, $110,242; East Hawkesbury Township, $101,395; Hawkesbury, $320,784; Alfred- Plantagenet Township, $279,588; North Glengarry Township, $311,663; and The Nation Municipality, $354,744.
“We will continue to build 21 st -Century infrastructure that meets our communities’ future needs,” said Drouin. “It certainly is to our benefit,” said Gary Barton, warden for the United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR), to have this stable
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Le député fédéral de Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, Francis Drouin, a annoncé plus de 5,5 M$ pour sa circonscription cette année, du Fonds fédéral de la taxe sur l’essence. L’argent sera réparti entre les neuf municipalités de la circonscription et les Comtés unis de Prescott et Russell et sera disponible pour des travaux d’infrastructuresmunicipaux, y compris les routes, les ponts et les infrastructures récréatives et liées au tourisme. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
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every litre of gasoline sold in each munici- pality and region in Canada and returns it to municipalities in the form of an indexed unconditional grant to each municipality for use in their infrastructure programs and projects. “We want to protect our communities through government infrastructure pro- grams,” said Drouin, adding that the federal and provincial governments are also dis- cussing a three-year, $11.8-billion infras- tructure support funding program. “Which I’mconfident is going to get signed shortly.”
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Budget plans for next year will be a bit easier now for municipal councils in the Glengarry-Prescott-Russell riding. The federal gas tax allocation for GPR for next year will bemore than $5.5million in total. Francis Drouin, Liberal MP for Glengarry- Prescott-Russell, announced, on August 31, the new indexed figure for his riding from the federal gas tax fund. The federal gas tax fund takes a portion of the federal gas tax on
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