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Feds to examine infrastructure spending Thursday

The federal Liberal Party is beginning discussions this week that will outline how regional infrastructure spending will roll out across Canada.

The federal Liberal Party is beginning discussions this week that will outline how regional infrastructure spending will roll out across Canada.

Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Patty Hajdu will meet with Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi on Thursday for a technical briefing on details regarding the $10-billion national infrastructure plan.

Hajdu was clear that although the national infrastructure plan has yet to take shape, she wants to see Ontario’s Far North play a part in infrastructure planning.  

“Certainly my priority is making sure we do get a healthy share of those infrastructure dollars for Northwestern Ontario because we need it, not just for the Ring of Fire but connecting the North in general would be a good thing for everybody’s economic development,” she said.

“Right now I have to say, ‘stay tuned.’”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed running three straight budget deficits to fund an “historic investment” in infrastructure across Canada. 

His majority government is under considerable pressure to develop infrastructure into the remote chromite deposit, considering the province has committed $1 billion to its proposed development.  
 

 

 





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