Stiles promised that if her party forms government, they will widen Highway 11/17 and Highway 69 in northern Ontario and bring snow clearance and highway maintenance back under public control.

There were 333 projects with a total of 43,413 rooms in Canada’s construction pipeline at the end of 2024. Both figures represented year-over-year increases of 13%.

Ryan Donais, a construction worker who founded Tiny Tiny Homes, started building the shelters with the goal of ending homeless encampments that have grown across Ontario in the past few years. 

The leaders talked about road safety and infrastructure in the north, as well as the addictions crisis that has hit many northern communities hard.

The residential sector grew 2.2% to $15.1 billion while the non-residential sector was up 1.3% to $6.7 billion.