Northern Mayors Lobby for Infrastructure Funds – Mining Life

Jul 7, 2015

The mayor’s of Northern Ontario’s largest cities want a portion of the province’s planned infrastructure investment outside of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area to be used to help pay for projects in their communities.

Mayor Al McDonald said the Northern Ontario Large Urban Mayors group – consisting of North Bay, Sudbury, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay – have agreed to lobby the province during upcoming infrastructure consultations for a share of the provincial funding.

The province is holding consultations across Ontario this summer to help determine how to allocate $11.5 billion of a $15-billion investment outside the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas as part of a long-term infrastructure plan.

And McDonald said the mayors’ group will ask that a portion of the funding be earmarked for municipal infrastructure needs, specifically large critical projects and those that will help boost economic development.

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