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Feds announce ‘largest ever’ investment in Rideau Canal
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It spans a tributary of the Rideau Canal, and sits right beside Parks Canada property, but the federal government has steadfastly refused to offer any help to the beleaguered Confederation Bridge. The bridge was closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic late last week, and sits just across the parking lot from the Rideau Canal Visitor Centre, where federal environment minister Leona Aglukkaq announced $39 million in infrastructure funding for several locations along the canal on Monday, June 1.
“I would refer you to the staff here,” said Aglukkaq during a press conference after the announcement, in which $2.3 million had been earmarked for replacing the current fixed bridge at Kingston Mills, $775,000 for the Merrickville swing bridge rehabilitation, $750,000 for the Chaffeys Swing Bridge replacement, $650,000 for the Jones Falls concrete bridge replacement, $1.6 million for the Jones Falls timber bridge rehabilitation. Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown encouraged the town to apply to the Building Canada Fund, through InfrastrucDesmond Devoy/METROLAND ture Canada, for help. Above from left, Doug Stru-
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About $39.4 million will be flowing from Ottawa, down the Rideau Canal, for about 11 infrastructure projects in what the federal government is calling “the most significant federal investment in Parks Canada in 104 years.” The comments came from federal environment minister Leona Aglukkaq during the funding announcement at the Rideau Canal Visitor Centre in Smiths Falls on Monday, June 1. Of the $39.4 million amount, there were $6.6 million in previously announced infrastructure investments by the Harper Conservatives, for a grand total of $46 million. She called the Rideau Canal part of “a legacy that belongs to us all…(and) connects us to nature and our history.” Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown called it a “historic announcement,” and Doug Struthers, chair of the Rideau Corridor Landscape Strategy, called it a “significant day in
thers, chair of the Rideau Corridor Landscape Strategy, federal environment minister Leona Aglukkaq, Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown, and Alan Latourelle, chief executive officer, Parks Canada, pose after the funding announcement at the Rideau Canal Visitor Centre in Smiths Falls on June 1. At right, Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown uses Confederation Bridge as a TV spot backdrop while asserting the bridge is the responsibility of the town.
the history of the canal.” While the canal has seen challenges over the past few years, Struthers, himself the former mayor of Merrickville-Wolford, said there was a difference between things that were “nice to do,” and those that were “critical,” and that “it is critical to keep the system open,” and that it shows that the federal government is “serious about our Rideau Canal. We are serious about making it a destination.” More specifically, he said it sends a message “to the private sector,” that, when “you invest a dollar, we are here as well,” to invest. “This is not spending money. This is investing money,” Struthers added, echoing the words of the late federal finance minister Jim Flaherty. Amongst the projects: • Burritts Rapids earth dam rehabilitation (North Grenville) $2.6 million. • Upper Nichols earth dam rehabilitation (MerrickvilleWolford) $850,000. See CANAL page SF2
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