Canada's local and regional airports keep our communities connected and create good, middle-class jobs. From visiting friends and family, to supporting essential medical services and food supply, and getting goods to market, we rely on our local airports to sustain safe and vibrant communities across the country.
Today, the Minister of Transport, Pablo Rodriguez, announced that the Government of Canada is making major investments to strengthen air safety at the La Ronge (Barber Field) Airport.
Through Transport Canada's Airports Capital Assistance Program, the airport is receiving more than $2.7 million for an airfield lighting rehabilitation project that will help maintain safe airport operations for passengers, crews, and airport workers. The project includes:
- new edge and threshold lights on Runway 18-36;
- precision approach path indicators lights;
- simplified short approach lighting and omni-directional approach lights;
- edge lights on Taxiways A, B, C and the apron;
- floodlights on Apron 1;
- constant current regulators; and
- signage and de-icing area floodlights and edge lights.
This funding is in addition to more than $1.2 million provided to the airport in 2022 for the purchase of a loader, a runway sweeper and a 4x4 snowplow, used in the removal and control of snow and ice on airside surfaces such as runways, taxiways and aprons.
