Provincial budget disappoints many in Quinte Final Edition

"Our needs in Belleville are substantial in terms of infrastructure. If the province is only earmarking $85 million for Eastern Ontario, then it will go nowhere close to meeting our needs in Belleville," he said Thursday evening. [Stephen Hyndman] said one of the challenges in Eastern Onta...

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Published inIntelligencer (Belleville. Daily ed. 1965)
Main Author Henry Bury, With files from Bruce Bell
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Belleville, Ont Postmedia Network Inc 24.03.2006
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Hyndman, Stephen
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Summary:"Our needs in Belleville are substantial in terms of infrastructure. If the province is only earmarking $85 million for Eastern Ontario, then it will go nowhere close to meeting our needs in Belleville," he said Thursday evening. [Stephen Hyndman] said one of the challenges in Eastern Ontario is that many cities are "quite old" and their aging infrastructure needs to be replaced sooner than later. "The government will need a lot of pushing from farmers to realize how bad the situation is and then provide farmers with the financial help they need ... but the message we're getting is that this government isn't interested in doing much for rural Ontario," said the dairy and grain farmer from Moira.
ISSN:0839-1904