I keep hearing that the ROF wasn't even mentioned in the budget, but that's not the case. Its still there. (A regurgitation of former fund allocation, but at least its still there)

Yet:

“They’ve been talking about big ticket items for years and many of those have been re-announcement after re-announcement. It’s likely we won’t see these big projects come to fruition,” he said.

McDonell used examples of projects he remembers when he came into office in 2011, like a road into the Ring of Fire development in Northern Ontario and two-way all-day GO transit to Kitchener.

“This year’s budget they just left it off (the Ring of Fire). After years of talking about this being our biggest – Ontario’s equivalent of the Oil Sands – now we don’t even want to talk about it in the budget.”

http://www.cornwallnewswatch.com/2018/03/28/ontario-budget-a-buy-in-to-election-mcdonell/