The following is an excerpt from the Budget. Can someone explain to me how the listed items cost nearly $1.2Billion?: CHOO CHOO!

The government is also making significant infrastructure investments to strengthen northern communities, with total planned investment of about $1.2 billion in northern highways, hospitals, water and wastewater systems, and other infrastructure that is forecast to support 10,000 jobs in 2010–11. These investments include:

• the Thunder Bay Consolidated Courthouse, which will improve access to justice and spur downtown revitalization;
• the Ontario Provincial Police Modernization project, which will involve the construction of new detachments, regional command centres and forensic identification units in 16 communities, including nine northern locations;
• expanding the 100-kilometre corridor of Highways 11/17 between Thunder Bay and Nipigon to four lanes. Construction on two projects along this corridor is to begin in 2010–11, with work on the remainder to follow; and
• providing up to $15 million to support Huron Central Railway’s proposal for $33 million of infrastructure investments on the Sault Ste. Marie to Sudbury rail line.