Federal watchers are hoping the governing Liberals won’t forget about Ring of Fire infrastructure when their first budget is delivered this afternoon.
Some say the best thing the new government can do is follow through with a plan to build roads into the remote mineral-rich region, finally connecting isolated First Nations to the rest of Ontario.
“We have been assured that this is in their plan — roads-to-reserves approach,” Thunder Bay Mayor Keith Hobbs said Monday.
Hobbs said that if roads and other infrastructure are funded by the feds, then mining companies like Noront would have an easier time moving ahead with job-creating projects.
“I would be shocked if there is no reference to (RoF infrastructure) in the budget,” said NDP MP Charlie Angus said.
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