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Wardens’ caucus treats MPs to breakfast most pressing issues to the upper levels of government. The EOWC has a proven track record of working with its many partners sion during the breakfast meeting was the need for “stable, predictable infrastructure funding” for road and bridge improvements
ving infrastructure in rural communities across Eastern Ontario,” stated Quaiff, “and the EOWC was pleased to see the federal government’s $2-billion commitment to rural and northernmunicipal infrastructure, and how that funding will be awarded in part on the basis of need.” Second item was the Eastern Ontario Regional Network business case (EORN) for support in closing “the cellular gap” across rural Eastern Ontario.The proposed project would improve cellular and mobile broad- band service across the region the same way that the EORN broadband project helped to eliminate almost all gaps for Internet access and service across the region.
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
and, specifically, using research and data to effectively explain why these should also be their priorities.” Mayor Quaiff noted the need for the EOWC, with its 13 members representing Eastern
throughout rural Eastern Ontario, to support existing and future econo- mic development. Quaiff noted that the EOWC’s research in- dicates its members should be spending at least $500 to $600 million more a year, to maintain existing roads and bridges. “The federal 2017 budget recognized the critical importance of managing and impro-
Les maires des conseils de comtés de l’Est de l’Ontario ont pris leur petit-déjeuner avec les députés, le 1er mai, pour discuter des problèmes d’infrastructures prioritaires.
Wardens for county councils all across EasternOntario sat down for breakfast on Parliament Hill, with a number of federal MPs for the region. The Eastern Ontario Wardens’ Caucus (EOWC) hosted its third annual breakfast meeting with MPs, May 1, on Parliament Hill. Besides the food, the EOWC had two other items on the menu. “It is our job, as leaders of our municipa- lities,” stated Mayor Robert Quaiff, current EOWC chairman, “to bring forward our
Ontario’s counties and their municipalities, to lobby for greater partnerships between the federal government and rural communities in Eastern Ontario. First priority for discus-
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