Over the past year, your Conservative government has helped fund an incredible number of community infrastructure projects.

Many of these projects (road, water, sewer repair; hockey rink upgrades, for example) had a March 31st completion date. There have been calls to extend this deadline. To be fair to all the communities that applied for these infrastructure grants, it would be very difficult to change the deadline.  Well, I’m happy to report that almost all the projects are coming in on time and should be finished before March 31st.

Our local contractors and municipal administrators have done a fantastic job to complete these infrastructure projects. Your Conservative government supplied $47 billion in federal stimulus across Canada, including monies to the RMs, towns and cities of Saskatchewan.

Auditor General of Canada Sheila Fraser’s report (released on Oct. 26) called the federal government’s launch of these infrastructure projects “a huge undertaking” that “was well-managed.”

I’m Brad Trost, your Member of Parliament in Saskatoon-Humboldt. You can call my office in Saskatoon at 975-6133 or drop by our two offices to visit: Saskatoon Monday-Friday or Humboldt Tuesday and Wednesday. I always appreciate your feedback.