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Connecting The North

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This document is 31 pages long so I just highlighted the part that talks about ROF and all season roads.  You can see the complete doc here:

https://www.ontario.ca/page/connecting-north-draft-transportation-plan-northern-ontario

Connecting the North: A Draft Transportation Plan for Northern Ontario

Read our plan to build a better transportation network for Northern Ontario.

1. Minister’s message
2. Impacts of COVID-19
3. Introduction
4. Executive summary
5. Plan highlights
6. Northern Ontario: challenges and opportunities
7. A plan for Northern Ontario
8. Goal 1: getting people moving and connecting communities
9. Goal 2: enabling economic opportunity
10. Goal 3: keeping people safe and providing reliable transportation options
11. Goal 4: preparing for the future
12. Goal 5: maintaining a sustainable transportation system
13. Goal 6: reliable travel options for remote and Far North communities
14. Working together with partners
15. Next steps

Ring of Fire Area

1. The Ontario government remains confident in the economic opportunity in the Ring of Fire area. Building a road to the Ring of Fire is a critical step to unlocking economic benefits in the region. Ontario will continue to support Marten Falls and Webequie First Nations as they advance their Environmental Assessments on their individual road projects for all-season roads to connect their communities and to connect their communities to the proposed Ring of Fire developments. Ontario is also supporting Aroland First Nation to upgrade roads near the community to support the potential for increased traffic from future road developments. All these road projects are important steps to unlocking the development potential in the Ring of Fire.

All-season roads

1. Initiate an all-season roads strategy for Far North, in conjunction with a process to coordinate land use and transportation planning on an ongoing basis.
2. Support Windigo First Nations Council in their continuing outreach efforts among member communities in their development of an allseason road strategy.
3. The province has committed to fund long-term maintenance of the Pickle Lake Northern Ontario Resource Transportation (NORT) road extension. It would run from its current endpoint about 200 km northwest of Pickle Lake to North Caribou Lake First Nation and support the First Nation’s plan to connect to the all-season road network. This road extension would replace a 42-km stretch of winter road.