The Ontario government is providing up to $1.05 billion in combined federal-provincial funding through the new COVID-19 Resilience
infrastructure stream to build or renovate health and safety related projects in long-term care, education and municipalities.
The funding is part of the federal government’s Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program.
MPP for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex Monte McNaughton says “this funding will be of great benefit to Lambton-Kent-Middlesex municipalities at a challenging time for budgetary planning”.
Municipality and/or Regional Government Allocation
Middlesex County $210,879
Strathroy-Caradoc $221,098
Middlesex Centre $354,957
Thames Centre $149,751
North Middlesex $189,955
Southwest Middlesex $100,000
Adelaide Metcalfe $100,000
The COVID-19 Resilience stream will support projects in four main categories:
– Community, recreation, health and education renovations (e.g. retrofits, repairs or upgrades to long-term care homes, publicly funded schools and co-located childcare facilities, recreation centres or shelters).
– COVID-19 response infrastructure (e.g. heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, new builds or renovations to enable physical distancing).
– Active transportation (e.g. parks, trails).
– Disaster mitigation, adaptation, or remediation (e.g. flood mitigation).
