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While the Ontario budget gives few details about a new provincial jail, a recent briefing to local community members lays out a five-year schedule for opening the new jail by 2023.
Ontario has a promised to replace the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. The budget makes only a brief reference to a commitment to “a new 725-bed multi-purpose correctional centre (which) will help drive reform by creating venues for rehabilitation by developing much-needed programming space to create better outcomes for those in care and custody.”
The details came in a March 16 briefing from senior provincial officials to the OCDC Task Force, which combines public officials and community members. Task force member Irene Mathias describes the schedule this way:
“Our understanding is that it’s a five-year project from here,” she said.
This year the schedule calls for the pre-selection of qualified proponents who will be able to bid on the design and construction of the jail. The government will also finalize design and service strategies this year.
The formal call for proposals will go out in 2019. Construction will begin in 2021 and be complete in 2023, she said. “That’s the schedule that I’ve been given.
“This is a firm plan.”
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She added that her task force doesn’t believe the new jail needs to have more beds than OCDC, but the use of space must be better planned.
“We certainly want to know that they are going to plan for implementation of the new legislation, which is going to totally transform corrections in Ontario over the next five to 10 years.”
The Ottawa jail will be one of two planned for Ontario. The other, with 325 beds, will be in Thunder Bay and it will also replace an older institution.
Here is a look at some of the budget’s other big-ticket items for Ottawa. Announcements on all of them had been made in the run-up to the budget release, or earlier in the case of the LRT:
• Continued funding for Phase Two of the LRT, to total more than $1 billion.
• The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. This month Premier Kathleen Wynne came to Ottawa to promise CHEO $105 million to build a six-storey, 200,000-square-foot building for outpatient work.
• The University of Ottawa Heart Institute comes out as the big winner in increased funding for seven local hospitals. The Heart Institute gets an extra $11.5 million for its operating budget, an increase of eight per cent. In all, the seven hospitals share $38 million in new operating funds.
• For the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital, Wynne recently announced $1.8 billion for the construction of a new super-hospital on the eastern edge of the Central Experimental Farm.
With a spring election coming, Liberal MPPS who attended some of these announcements carried the clear campaign message that voters will get bigger and better hospitals if they vote Liberal, but not if they vote Conservative.
Missing from the budget is any mention of funding for a new main library — funding that Ottawa has been hoping for.
So far the federal government has promised $73 million for the new library. That leaves $99 million for the city to cover. It hopes that the sale of the current main library site on Laurier Avenue will pay for much of this, but it is also hoping for a provincial contribution.
The building on LeBreton Flats will be shared with Library and Archives Canada.
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Ontario has a promised to replace the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. The budget makes only a brief reference to a commitment to “a new 725-bed multi-purpose correctional centre (which) will help drive reform by creating venues for rehabilitation by developing much-needed programming space to create better outcomes for those in care and custody.”
The details came in a March 16 briefing from senior provincial officials to the OCDC Task Force, which combines public officials and community members. Task force member Irene Mathias describes the schedule this way:
“Our understanding is that it’s a five-year project from here,” she said.
This year the schedule calls for the pre-selection of qualified proponents who will be able to bid on the design and construction of the jail. The government will also finalize design and service strategies this year.
The formal call for proposals will go out in 2019. Construction will begin in 2021 and be complete in 2023, she said. “That’s the schedule that I’ve been given.
“This is a firm plan.”
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She added that her task force doesn’t believe the new jail needs to have more beds than OCDC, but the use of space must be better planned.
“We certainly want to know that they are going to plan for implementation of the new legislation, which is going to totally transform corrections in Ontario over the next five to 10 years.”
The Ottawa jail will be one of two planned for Ontario. The other, with 325 beds, will be in Thunder Bay and it will also replace an older institution.
Here is a look at some of the budget’s other big-ticket items for Ottawa. Announcements on all of them had been made in the run-up to the budget release, or earlier in the case of the LRT:
• Continued funding for Phase Two of the LRT, to total more than $1 billion.
• The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. This month Premier Kathleen Wynne came to Ottawa to promise CHEO $105 million to build a six-storey, 200,000-square-foot building for outpatient work.
• The University of Ottawa Heart Institute comes out as the big winner in increased funding for seven local hospitals. The Heart Institute gets an extra $11.5 million for its operating budget, an increase of eight per cent. In all, the seven hospitals share $38 million in new operating funds.
• For the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital, Wynne recently announced $1.8 billion for the construction of a new super-hospital on the eastern edge of the Central Experimental Farm.
With a spring election coming, Liberal MPPS who attended some of these announcements carried the clear campaign message that voters will get bigger and better hospitals if they vote Liberal, but not if they vote Conservative.
Missing from the budget is any mention of funding for a new main library — funding that Ottawa has been hoping for.
So far the federal government has promised $73 million for the new library. That leaves $99 million for the city to cover. It hopes that the sale of the current main library site on Laurier Avenue will pay for much of this, but it is also hoping for a provincial contribution.
The building on LeBreton Flats will be shared with Library and Archives Canada.
tspears@postmedia.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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