The Ontario PC leader also announced plans to build a road to the Ring of Fire, a promise made during his 2018 campaign.
Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford stopped at Rector Machine Works in Sault Ste. Marie is announcing several road and infrastructure projects in northern Ontario this morning.
Local MPP Ross Romano and several Rector Machine Works representatives were present to welcome Ford’s announcement.
“In 2021 alone, we invested $ 641 million in the expansion and repair of northern highways,” he said. “These are desperately needed investments that will mean better roads and almost 4,500 jobs here in the north.”
Ford has also announced plans to build a road to the Ring of Fire, a campaign promise made in 2018, and again this morning.
“We are working side by side with local communities in a real partnership and investing a billion dollars to build a year-round road to the Ring of Fire,” he said. “It will be a corridor to prosperity that will connect communities, families and businesses across the north. This will help create thousands of new jobs in mining and bring countless benefits and opportunities to local communities, including easier access to everyday goods that most of us take for granted.
Located about 500 kilometers north of Thunder Bay, the Ontario Ring of Fire region is considered a promising opportunity for mineral development for the province. Ford believes the Progressive Conservatives are the only party they can build this time.
“Kathleen Winn and Stephen Del Duca had their chance,” he said. “They started talking about the construction of this road in 2011. They talked, reviewed, discussed, procrastinated – nothing has been built, nothing has been done. Andrea Horvat is against building anything. The NDP is happier to protest against a road than to build one. “
Ford says they are also working to make Ontario the leader in North America in the electric vehicle industry and wants Algoma to play a role in the venture.
“I want the minerals mined here in the north, the pure steel produced here in Algoma, to be a critical part of the EV supply chain we’re building right here in Ontario,” he said. “We can only do this by working together.”
With only 26 days until the provincial election, Ford is confident that his party can deliver on those promises.
“The best days in Northern Ontario are yet to come,” he said. “But it’s up to each of us to roll up our sleeves, get to work and finish. We have a team, we have a vision and we have a plan, “he said. “So, on June 2, let’s do it and let’s do it.”
Ford will also spend some time at Sault College today.
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