Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces $34.9M for Sudbury wastewater facility

Ontario Premier Doug Ford in Sudbury on Monday afternoon to make an infrastructure funding announcement at a wastewater facility.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford made a visit to Sudbury on Monday afternoon for a $34.9 million wastewater infrastructure announcement.

The news conference was held at 2 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Lively-Walden wastewater plant and CTVNewsNorthernOntario.ca had the event streaming live online.

Watch the full, raw video including Ford taking questions from the media above. 

The money will help enable the construction of 3,300 new homes in the city, the province said in a news release and is coming from the first round of allocations under the Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund.

The fund will help municipalities build, repair, rehabilitate and expand drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure needed for residential development.

"We’re working with our municipal partners here in Sudbury and across Ontario to get more homes built faster,” said Ford.

"With billions of dollars in investments in housing-enabling infrastructure, our government is helping get more shovels in the ground to keep the dream of homeownership alive and help more families across Ontario find a home that meets their needs and their budgets."