Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Rickford applauds infrastructure extension

Ontario's Auditor General says fewer jobs were created in the first year of the federal/provincial infrastructure program than expected, but Kenora M.P. Greg Rickford is questioning that finding.

Rickford says statistics released by the federal government show there was definite job gains not only in this riding, but right across Canada.

Rickford adds that the six month extension for the completion of infrastructure jobs announced last week by the federal government is good news for a number of communities in the far north, which have a shorter construction season.