Canadians rely on safe and well-maintained local and regional airports to support vibrant communities. These airports also support essential air services including community resupply, air ambulance, search and rescue, and forest fire response.
The Minister of National Revenue, the Honourable Diane Lebouthillier, and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, Annie Koutrakis, on behalf of the Minister of Transport, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, today announced that the Government of Canada is making important safety investments at local and regional airports in Quebec.
Through Transport Canada's Airports Capital Assistance Program, three airports in Quebec will receive over $3.4 million for safety-related projects and equipment that will help maintain safe airport operations for passengers, crews and airport workers. The airports receiving funding are:
La Grande Rivière Airport
- $476,000 to purchase a medium-sized snowblower and a runway surface friction tester
Mont-Joli Airport
- $451,000 to purchase a grader, a runway condition reporting system and a runway surface friction tester
St-Hubert Airport
- $2.5 million to rehabilitate the airport's field electrical centre and purchase a wet/dry combination material spreader
This funding is in addition to the more than $24.8 million announced under the program in May 2021 to support safety-related projects at the Gaspé, La Grande Rivière, Mont-Joli and St. Hubert airports.
Since the Airports Capital Assistance Program started in 1995, the Government of Canada has invested over $1.2 billion for 1,215 projects at 199 local, regional and National Airports System airports across the country. Funded projects include runway and taxiway repairs/rehabilitation, lighting enhancements, purchasing snow clearing equipment and firefighting vehicles and installing wildlife control fencing.
