Budget In Brief
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Building Manitoba
Now, more than ever, Manitoba is building for the future by investing in key infrastructure projects across the province. From schools to hospitals to highways, the buzz of heavy construction is signaling our province’s growth and prosperity. Budget 2007 provides funds that will help build this momentum.
- $400 million is designated for highways spending – part of the five-year, $2 billion highway renewal plan that will be the largest highways investment in Manitoba’s history.
- Major capital investments will be made in public schools – over eight budgets, these investments total more than $423 million – including 24 new or replacement schools, 49 school additions and renovation projects and over 950 renewal and access projects.
- A new hospital will be built in Selkirk and renovations will be funded at Seven Oaks Hospital, Steinbach’s Bethesda Hospital and St. Anthony’s Hospital in The Pas – a new acquired brain injury unit will also be built in Thompson.
- $33 million will be provided for cost-shared projects such as a wastewater treatment upgrade in Winnipeg, water and sewer projects in Grand Rapids, wellness centres in Swan River, The Pas and West St. Paul and YM/YWCA facilities in Brandon as well as north and south Winnipeg.
- A 50-50 funding partnership has been secured with the federal government to complete the entire Red River Floodway Expansion Project.
- Up to $25 million will be provided to the University of Winnipeg to support capital projects such as the new Richardson College for the Environment.
