The awards pay tribute to those Ontario companies with fewer than 50 employees who have demonstrated strong leadership in the health and safety sector in the past year.

The funding sees the purchase of new buses and associated equipment, with approximately $12 million available for construction and renovation works on a variety of transit facilities.

A project that helped to rehabilitate 2.3 kilometres of trunk sanitary sewers in Niagara Falls earned the 2020 Federal Gas Tax Award.

Slow demand in British Columbia, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador brought the national total down compared with June’s strong performance.

Ten public transit projects and five road and bridge projects are being funded to the tune of $31 million through federal, provincial and municipal investments.