This story came out yesterday and something caught my eye.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/24/liberals-look-to-speed-up-spending-old-conservative-fund-as-parliament-returns_n_9065402.html

"As it turns out, one of the first orders of parliamentary business of the new Liberal government might be spending an old Conservative fund"

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"Increased infrastructure spending is one of the first priorities, given the state of the economy. Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi says he's talking to the provinces about how to allocate existing cash from the $10 billion New Building Canada fund set up under the previous government.

As part of a 10-year, $60-billion election pledge, the Liberals promised to spend $20 billion over the next two years on infrastructure, half of which had already been budgeted by the Conservatives. Sohi says he's not looking at speeding up the timetable of the new Liberal spending — which can't be doled out until after the Liberals bring down a budget, likely in early March — but he's signalling he'll immediately loosen the purse strings on the existing fund."

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We know that the Wynne gov't submitted the ROF as a priority project in the Build Canada fund during the during the Harper Gov't.

http://news.ontario.ca/medt/en/2015/07/ontario-takes-action-to-secure-infrastructure-funding.html

"Ontario also nominated the Ring of Fire under the National Infrastructure Component and continues to call on the federal government to match the province's commitment to invest up to $1 billion in the region. This project represents an unprecedented opportunity to unlock the economic development potential of northern Ontario and realize tremendous public benefits for Aboriginal communities, Ontario and Canada as a whole"