Canada Residents Eastern Tender

Investing in modern transportation infrastructure is vital to connecting communities and ensuring that Canadians get to work school and essential services on time and back home safely at the end of a long day. Today the Honourable Bernadette Jordan Minister of Rural Economic Development announced funding for ten road and bridge improvement projects in Eastern Ontario.The municipalities of Madawaska North Algona Wilberforce Renfrew Brudenell Lyndoch and Raglan Tay Valley North Frontenac Drummond-North Elmsley and AdmastonBromley will see significant reconstruction and rehabilitation projects on their roadways. In addition repairs and replacement of key components will be carried out on bridges in Brockville and in the Carleton Place. These ten projects will improve roads and bridges and provide added safety to drivers and pedestrians. The Government of Canada is investing more than 10.4 million in the ten projects through the Rural and Northern Communities Infrastructure Stream of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure plan. The Province of Ontario will contribute over 6.4 million with municipalities responsible for the remaining project costs.