We are making significant investments in infrastructure at defence facilities across the country. This will provide our military with the facilities it needs to continue training and operating successfully. As part of the federal infrastructure investment program, we will be spending $452 million on infrastructure project upgrades across the country, and the programs carried forward will be $6.2 million, from 2016 to 2017.
Ten projects will be completed by the end of March. They range in scope from health and safety repairs to airfield and hangar repairs, to military housing repairs, to recapitalization, as well as heating and ventilation systems.
As we talk about particular projects, when I go to the various bases, I look at the main priorities of the buildings—the housing, the headquarters where people actually work, and the facilities for their health centres—and at what state they're in.
In the last two years, we've made significant investments in these programs, because the maintenance and upkeep was not there. As you know, if you do not have the ability to continually modernize these buildings, there comes a time when they cannot be repaired. We have this situation now across Canada, and these investments are going to go a long way to modernize our facilities.