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Le gouvernement provincial a refusé pour la deuxième fois une demande des Comtés unis de Prescott-Russell pour le financement d’une proposition de réaménagement du chemin de comté 28 près de la limite entre la Municipalité de Russell et la Ville d’Ottawa. Il s’agit de la route la plus fréquentée des Comtés unis avec une moyenne de 12 000 voitures par jour. Plusieurs accidents y sont déjà survenus. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
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Marc Clermont, counties public works direc- tor, regarding the provincial government’s rejection. A provincial government letter to the counties stated that the 2017 Top-Up program received hundreds of applications, all of which combined exceeds the total amount of funding available. The letter noted that the UCPR is getting more than $1.8 million “in formula-based funding” from the province from 2018 to 2020 to put towards critical infrastructure projects. Clermont noted that his department may still go ahead. It may complete the final design plans for the project this year in anticipation of future funding assistance from the province. The critical part of the redesign con- cerns the intersection off-ramp. There have been accidents in the past. As a result, the posted speed limit has been reduced from 80 to 50 kilometers for that part of the road. “It’s a busy intersection,” said Clermont, adding that vehicle traffic averages 12,000 each day. “(It’s) One of the highest-travelled roads in the counties.”
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Plans may go ahead with some of the redesign work needed for County Road 28 in Russell Township, even if the provincial government won’t provide any roadwork support money for the project this year. County 28 is in Russell Township, in the Vars area. The section proposed for redesign runs from the Enterprise Road intersection to south of the Highway 417 off-ramp and borders the 417 Industrial Park. The United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR) got a “no” response to its applica- tion to the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund’s (OCIF) 2017 Top-Up program. The UCPR had asked for $849,000 to add to the $1.2 million already in the counties budget this year for redesign work on County Road 28. “It’s the second time we’ve applied,” said
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phone interview, “I would say that regard- less of who the leader of the Progressive Conservatives is, it doesn’t change the fact that we have put forth very solid plans for the good of Ontario.” He also indicated that the June election will show what voters think of the current change in leadership for the Progressive Conservatives. “There certainly is a clear choice for Ontarians to make,” he said.
Doug Ford is now the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Grant Crack, Liberal MPP for Glengarry- Prescott-Russell, does not think that will make any difference in the June provincial election
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voting re- sults for the riding. I ncumben t Liberal MPP Grant Crack does not think it makes any difference if Ford is the new
i8F IBWF B (political) party which is leaning to the far right.” In the week leading up to the PC leader- ship conven- tion, Amanda Simard, the
L’élection de Doug Ford en tant que chef du Parti progressiste- conservateur n’aura pas d’incidence dans GPR selon Grant Crack.
1$MFBEFS)FUIJOLTUIF8ZOOF-JCFSBM government has been good for the riding and for the province and the results will show up in the June poll results. “In the case of Glengarry-Prescott- Russell,” said Crack during a March 12
Progressive Conservative candidate for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, declared Elliott as her favoured candidate for the party’s new leader. Simard had not returned our phone message requests for comment in time for the press deadline.
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