when you look further;
http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/ontariobudgets/2016/bk2.html
Outside the GTHA
The Province continues to invest in the infrastructure that communities need now and in the future.
- The 2016 Budget invests in new highway projects and expands the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund (OCIF) to $300 million per year by 2018–19 to support projects in small, rural and northern communities.
- Through the Small Communities Fund, the Province and the federal government are each providing $272 million to support projects in communities with populations of less than 100,000.
- The Province is also developing programs to help communities partner with utilities to extend access to natural gas supplies. Ontario will introduce a loan program to support access to natural gas in 2016.
- The Connecting Links program will provide $20 million in 2016–17, up from $15 million announced in the 2015 Budget, to help municipalities pay the construction and repair costs for municipal roads that connect two ends of a provincial highway through a community or to a border crossing. Funding for this program will increase to $30 million per year by 2018–19.
- The Ring of Fire project will support economic development in northern Ontario, benefiting Indigenous communities, Ontario and Canada as a whole. The Province has committed up to $1 billion for transportation infrastructure development in the region.
