$900M set aside for infrastructure.

Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing.

Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it will benefit from a joint Ontario-Canada program that will see $900 million invested in the renewal of public infrastructure in small towns across the province over a five-year period.

The new Canada-Ontario Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund (COMRIF COMRIF Canada-Ontario Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund ) represents a major investment in capital projects.

Ontario Minister of Natural Resources David Ramsay David Ramsay may refer to:

David Ramsay (congressman) (1749–1815), a American physician, historian, and Continental Congressman for South Carolina
David Ramsay (MP) (after 1673–1710), among the Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain

, Liberal MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. for Timiskaming-Cochrane, expects the fund to go towards new clean-water projects and will help pay for better waste management facilities.

Other money, he says, will go towards new road construction, bridges and maintenance.

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Title Annotation:	Around the North
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Date:	Sep 1, 2004
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