Thank you.
That's kind of a surprise to me. I didn't realize it would come out over three years.
What is the exact criteria as to how we access that funding? When is it going to be available? What does “infrastructure” mean as far as making application for those dollars is concerned? Who is going to roll it out? Is it going to come straight from the federal government to the community? If it passes through the Ontario government, how much will be lost in administration?
I have a whole page full of questions.
My biggest concerns are how we are going to access that funding, when we are going to access it, what it's going to look like over three years, and how it is going to find its way to northwestern Ontario, where it's so badly needed, either through research or training or getting these people back to work.
Every day costs almost a life in Ontario. The impact in northwestern Ontario and across the north is huge. It might be nice to sit here and feel good, but it is darn tough out there in the world. We have families that are being torn apart because there's no money to invest in them--no money to restructure, no money for jobs, no money for the training needs. We have mining opportunities that funding needs to come to. Will Bell Canada be part of that? Will this money be part of that?
We need to have this funding now. Surely we can find a way to do that.