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Old Posted Aug 22, 2009, 9:22 PM
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Originally Posted by hamiltonguy View Post
As for projects, where have you been for the past 3 years? Is CANMET seriously the only federal project you can think of? For example, three construction ready affordable housing projects in Hamilton just got 7.1 million in funding, the 3 million dollar investment in Redeemer University College (which despite being a private university, still has a role to play in our post-secondary system), 22 million also at the same time for McMaster University and the Eastgate Transit terminal funding (1.6 million) just to mention a few recent items for the riding and the surrounding areas.
Even if we had no Conservative MP in Hamilton we would still get those money from the infrastructure stimulus money. Eastgate transit came from the Public Transit Capital Trust, which Hamilton got $1.6 million out of the $500 million pot, that's hardly a percent.

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