The Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities was in Surrey to announce over $73.3 million in funding from the federal Gas Tax Fund for 57 capital and capacity building projects in communities across British Columbia.

Binnie Construction Services Ltd. of Surrey took the top award for Construction Management and Supervision at the 12th annual Deputy Minister’s Consulting Engineers Awards, for its exceptional work on the Big White passing lane and intersection improvements on Highway 33.

The Province is supporting the creation of approximately 1,700 new licensed child-care spaces under the third phase of the Child Care Major Capital Funding Program.

To help ensure that criminals will find no safe haven in British Columbia, government is developing new standards that will help B.C.’s police agencies build on their continued successful anti-gang disruption efforts.

The B.C. government will provide approximately $400,000 in funding to Lookout Emergency Aid Society to operate a new temporary winter shelter in Surrey.

To celebrate the official launch of the new Single Parent Employment Initiative (SPEI), Minister of Children and Family Development Stephanie Cadieux met with two eager single mothers and staff from the Surrey-Cloverdale WorkBC Employment Services Centre to discuss the program and how it will help them achieve their individual career goals.