Mr. Greg Rickford (Kenora, CPC): Mr. Speaker, earlier this month Canada's transport, and infrastructure minister and his Ontario provincial counterpart announced more than $1 billion in infrastructure investment to Ontario communities with fewer than 100,000 people.

Communities in the great Kenora riding were elated with these investments.

Can the minister inform the House how this funding will affect their communities and has affected the communities in the Kenora riding?

Hon. John Baird (Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, CPC): Mr. Speaker, in these uncertain economic times, Canadians want us to work together to get things going, to get jobs created right across the province.

The Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and Liberal MPP Leona Dombrowsky calls the funding that the government announced the most significant infrastructure investment that has been made in rural Ontario probably in the history of the province.

The mayor of Timmins said, “I applaud the federal and provincial governments for their quick and decisive action”.

The government is getting the job done for rural Ontario.