Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund

NRU
March 2, 2016

February 22 Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the expansion of the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund and the Connecting Links program. The community infrastructure fund, which will triple from $100 to $300 million per year by 2018-19, allows smaller municipalities to apply for funding for critical infrastructure projects.

The program will provide $20 million in 2016-17 to help municipalities fund construction and repairs for municipal roads that connect two ends of a provincial highway through a community or border crossing. The expansion of these funding tools is intended to help small rural and northern municipalities build and repair roads, bridges, water and wastewater infrastructure.