Local Projects Tracked

Just two-hundred jobs have been created in the Rainy River district through the provincial government's stimulus program.

Thrity-five projects received just over $6-million last year.

The figures are released in a new government website intended to track the progress of infrastructure projects.

Kenora-Rainy River MPP Howard Hampton says he's not that surprised by the job numbers.

"A lot of the capital, so-called stimulus projects announced as a way of fighting back against the recession in fact don't create a lot of jobs," says Hampton. "That's the just some of the choices that were made."

The province's site also indicates that as of October, about a third of the district's projects had not yet started.