Premier Doug Ford announced last week he would make new highways infrastructure investments, including a widening of the Queen Elizabeth Way between Burlington and St. Catharines.
The announcement made in Niagara Falls touted an additional $22 billion in the Ontario PC’s $200 billion “plan to build”.
“In the face of U.S. tariffs and the devastation they would cause to our economy, we’re going to invest even more in our plan to build so we can get shovels in the ground and keep people working,” he said.
Ford said his government would invest up to $15 billion more over three years to speed up key capital projects, such as the QEW widening. He said he would provide another $5 billion for the Building Ontario Fund, for a total of $8 billion, to invest in housing, long-term care, energy, transportation and municipal infrastructure projects.