In keeping with the government's commitment to transparency and public accountability, the province will strengthen communications with stakeholders and the public, telling them how and where tax dollars are being invested to renew Ontario's public infrastructure assets. Municipalities and all broader public partners are also required to be transparent and accountable and should develop basic corporate communications and stakeholder/community outreach plans that identify opportunities and strategies for:
• announcing key milestones in infrastructure investment life cycles;
• informing stakeholders and local communities about an investment's consistency with Ontario's Guiding Principles for Planning, Financing and Procuring Public Infrastructure, objectives and impacts on the community (e.g., job creation, improved program/service delivery); and
• co-ordinating all communications with respect to a given investment with the provincial ministries responsible and/or central government agencies.
PIR's communications branch will provide communications planning support to the government with respect to infrastructure planning, financing and procurement. Infrastructure ministries will be responsible for specific communications requirements around individual initiatives falling under their scope of responsibility.