The provincial government is rolling out $61.8 million to beef up a main thoroughfare in the town of Geraldton, which is being pronounced as the “first segment” toward building a road network into the Ring of Fire.
Construction crews will be mobilized this fall to begin rehabilitating and upgrading a five-kilometre stretch off the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 11) and onto Highway 584.
It may look like baby steps, but Indigenous Affairs and First Nations Economic Reconciliation Minister Greg Rickford calls it “the first major physical step in the development” of the proposed north-south route, often dubbed by Rickford as the “Corridor to Prosperity.”
“But it’s time to get started,” said Rickford, in clapping his hands for emphasis.
He was speaking at the Building Together: Indigenous Business and the Infrastructure Opportunity Conference in Toronto, Sept. 10. The event was livestreamed.
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