The Liberal candidate for the Kenora riding is questioning recent funding announcements made by the Doug Ford government.
Money for road upgrades in Dryden and Kenora has been promised, with the province indicating it will cover 83% of the cost of repairs, with the municipalities responsible for the remaining 17%.
Bob Nault isn’t sold on the idea.
“That looks awfully a lot like the program that we have, the Canada-Ontario Infrastructure program, where the Federal government pays 50%, the province 33% and the 17% is the municipal contribution.”
Nault says he supports the projects but stresses the Federal government hasn’t seen anything from Ontario on the funding requests.
“What we’ve seen the last number of months is the province making these kinds of announcements and then putting the proposal into the Feds asking for this to be a ‘highly recommended’ project.”
Nault says it’s “Unfortunate that it’s being put forward as if it’s just a provincial-municipal project, because I doubt very much that’s the direction that this will end up going. I want to see these projects go.”
He accuses Premier Doug Ford of playing political games.
Nault notes “Doug Ford has been hiding from Ontarians for months, finally breaking his vow of electoral silence, five days from Election Day to try and help the local Conservative candidate.”
