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GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
includes bilateral agreements between Ot- tawa and the provinces for allocating shares of that fund over the next decade. Ontario’s share is worth between $10 billion and $11 billion for investment in public transit, “green” infrastructure, community cultural and recreational infrastructure, and for rural and northern regional infrastructure. Drouin noted that the formula for projects approved under the fund’s rural infrastructure section has also changed. Ottawa did away with the old one-third shares formula between federal, provincial, and local governments. /PXNVOJDJQBMJUJFTXJUIBUPUBMQPQVMB - tion of 5000 or less may get up to 60 per cent of the cost for a project approved for funding. Those with populations of more than 5000 may get half of the cost of an approved project.
Millions of dollars worth of federal sup- port funds are available to rural Ontario municipalities for infrastructure projects but only if the provincial government gets on board with the plan. That was the message from Glengarry- Prescott-Russell MP Francis Drouin (see photo) to local mayors, during the March 13 committee of the whole session of the United Counties of Prescott-Russell council (UCPR). “The funding stream has still not been opened,” Drouin said during a later interview. The federal government committed more than $180 billion during its 2016 and 2017 budgets to the Investing in Canada plan, to help spur economic development. The plan
Au cours des dix prochaines années, le gouvernement fédéral consacrera beaucoup d’argent pour aider les municipalités à répondre à leurs besoins essentiels en infrastructures. Mais le député Francis Drouin a déclaré que le gouvernement provincial tarde à s’acquitter de sa responsabilité d’examiner et de recommander des projets potentiels à financer. —archives “The province has the responsibility for analyzing projects (applications) and sub- mitting them to the federal government,” said Drouin, adding that Ottawa has yet to hear from Queens Park on any funding recommendations. Drouin urged UCPR council and its mem- ber municipalities to determine what projects they have which might qualify under the federal infrastructure aid program, and then lobby the provincial government to speed up the analysis and approval process. The day before Drouin’s meeting with UCPR council, the provincial government posted a news release on its website an- nouncing a $30 billion infrastructure funding program. The news release noted that the money comes through the Canada Infrastructure Program “which will unlock up to $30 billion in combined federal, provincial, and local investments” over the next 10 years. It also notes that “Ontario’s share per project will be up to 33 per cent or $10.2 billion” with the money split between rural, public transit, “green”, and community, cul- ture, and recreation infrastructure projects. The provincial news release also states that there is an eight-week window starting March 18 for applications to the rural portion of the infrastructure funding program. Grant applications go through online at http:// www.grants.gov.on.ca.
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