Champlain Community Care Access Centre

• $3.3 million to better serve its clients and increase access to local community care
• Besides improving access, this alignment will improve how CCACs operates by improving the planning, coordination and accountability of health services.
  

La Cité Collegiale

• Cité collegiale received $13 million for the 911 Institute: Emergency Services Training Centre
• Received $1.6 million new funding investment in 2006 to hire nine new full-time faculty and 19 support staff, as well as enhance software and student services and increaseservices for students with disabilities

Land Ambulance Services

• Ontario is investing an additional $765,239 in Ottawa in 2009 in maintain 50/50 cost-sharing of land ambulance operating costs

Montfort Hospital

• Instead of closing the Montfort Hospital, we have contributed $185 million towards its expansion
• The hospital has added two new wings and renovated existing facilities to expand intensive care, maternal newborn, mental health, ambulatory care and emergency services

University of Ottawa

• $50 million for the construction of the Vanier Tower, a state-of-the art, eco-friendly building designed for research and to house the Faculty of Social Sciences.
• 12 new spaces for first year medical students over 2 years along with $200,000 to upgrade medical school facilities
• $8,437,833 as part of the $150 million one-time operating grat for post-secondary institutions in 2009

Other Funding

• Action ontarienne contre la violence faite auc femmes: $600,140 over 2009-10 and 2010-11 to continue the implimentation of the provincial Voisin-es, ami-es et familles public education campaign
• Ottawa Congress Centre: $30 million in one-time capital funding to rebuild the Congress Centre
• École Montfort: $9 million investment, the new École Montfort will open in September 2009 at 641 Sladen Ave, Ottawa
• Ottawa Police Services: $2.3 million ofr 95 new police officers in Ottawa
• Ottawa-Vanier Tourism: $237, 750 to support the enhancement of the Ottawa International Writers Festival, the Ottawa International Childrens Festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Festival Franco-Ontarien 2009 and the Festival des Sucre 2009 through the celebrate Ontario 2009 program.

Ontario Government Accomplishments Helping Ottawa-Vanier

Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

• In the 2009 Ontario Budget, the McGuinty government is investing nearly $700 million over two years in new skills training and literacy initiatives and enhancements to existing programs. These investments include: 490 million over two years to expand literacy and basic skills training, helping up to 13,000 more Ontarians each year

Ministry of the Environment

• In addition to the Green Energy Act, the budget announced more then $ 300 million in new initiatives to support Ontario's move towards a green economy. Theses include a new Emerging Technologies Fund that will invest in clean technology retrofits to public secot buildings and a Green Job Skills Strategy.
• Ontario Bus Replacement Program in which the Ontario government is investing $50 million to help 47 muncipalities, including the City of Ottawa, replace aging buses in their transit fleet.

Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

• Approximately 500,000 more people who did not have a family doctor in 2003 have one now

Minimum Wage

• On March 31, 2009, the Ontario government increased the minimum wage to $9.50 per hour, to be follwed by an increase to $10.25 per hour on March 31, 2010, amounting to an increase of 50% over 2003.

Ontario Child Benefit

• The Ontario Budget has acllerated the phase-in of the Ontario Child Benefit from $600 to $1,100 per child this July, two years ahead of schedule. Almost 115,00more families would become eligible for the Ontario Child Benefit

Small Businesses

• Small businesses will see a boost fromt he 2009 Budget, as it will cut the Corporate Income Tax rate from 5.5% to 4.5%.

Social Assistance

• In the 2009 Budget, the government is proposing to increase the adult basic needs allowance and macimum shelter allowance by 2% in the fall of 2009.
• Increasing social assistance benefits by 3% in the 2204 Budget, and by 2% in each of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Budgets. That is an 11% increase over 2003, including the proposed 2009 increase.

Social Housing

• Over the next two years, the province, together with the federal government, plans to invest over $1.2 billion
• Nearly $24 million has been invested to support rent banks, preventing more then 15,500 evictions to date.