Air Ronge council upset with lack of funding from Trans Canada Trail
The Village of Air Ronge isn’t satisfied with its partnership with the Trans Canada Trail (TCT).
At a regular council meeting in March, council members voiced their frustration with the amount of funding it’s received from the organization so far. They claimed the municipality has received less than $20,000 in funding to improve the Heritage Trail so it can join the TCT network.
The TCT connects 15,000 rural, urban and Indigenous communities across Canada and spans over 28,000 kilometres. Air Ronge’s Heritage Trail, which is 3.7 km, was accepted into the network in 2021.
“We should have gotten some more money because I called to say we should get more money and they said they were going to send some and that was back in, I think, November,” said Coun. Corey Hardcastle, who has spearheaded the project.