The provincial governmentโs capital plan included in the fall economic update this week is includes planned investments over the next 10 years totalling $158.8 billion, including $20.0 billion in 2022โ23 in the following projects:
Highways
$25.1 billion over 10 years to support the planning and/or construction of highway
- Highway 413, a new 400-series highway and transit corridor across Halton, Peel and York regions.
- Bradford Bypass, a new four-lane freeway connecting Highway 400 and Highwayย 404.
- Theย QEWย Garden City Skyway rehabilitation project, which will include a new twin bridge over the Welland Canal connecting St. Catharines to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
- Early works in Oshawa and Port Hope to enable future widening of Highwayย 401.
- Continuing the next phase of construction for the new Highway 7 between Kitchener and Guelph.
- Widening of Highway 17 from Arnprior to Renfrew to four lanes.
- The Timmins Connecting Link to reconstruct an approximately 21.4-kilometre stretch of Highway 10.
Transit
$61.6 billion over 10 years for public transit, including:
- Breaking ground on the Ontario Line.
- Bowmanville GO Rail Extension.
- Planning and design work for a connection of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension to Toronto Pearson International Airport.
- Advancing planning work for the Sheppard Subway Extension.
- $75 million to bring passenger rail service back to Northeastern Ontario to restore a key transportation option between Timmins and Toronto.
Infrastructure
$40 billion over 10 years in hospital infrastructure, including:
- Transformation of the existing site and urgent care centre into a new 24/7 inpatient care hospital at Peel Memorial.
- Redevelopment of the existing hospital and regional trauma centre on a new site for the Ottawa Hospital โ Civic.
- Support for new hospital in Windsor .
- Funding for the redevelopment of acute care hospitals in Huntsville and Bracebridge.
- Funding for the planning of the Grand River Hospital and St. Maryโs General Hospital to construct a new joint acute care facility.
- Funding for single largest hospital infrastructure investment through the Trillium Health Partners.
- Construction of new hospital on existing Uxbridge site at the Oak Valley Health โ Uxbridge Hospital.
- Support for the Stevenson Memorial Hospital redevelopment.
- Construction of new diagnostic imaging, laboratory and emergency departments at the Wallaceburg Sydenham Hospital, part of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, to modernize service delivery.
- Expansion of the Scarborough Health Network โ Birchmount site with a new inpatient tower and an expanded emergency department to reduce wait times, improve patient flow and update aging infrastructure.
- Building longโterm care homes in Mississauga, Ajax and Toronto.
Additional Infrastructure
- $6 billion in the postsecondary education projects.
- $21 billion over next 10 years, to support the renewal and expansion of school infrastructure and childcare projects.