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By Doug Ford standards, it was subtle.

The premier was in Pelham in the Niagara region on Thursday, making an infrastructure announcement when he said words that would surprise some.

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“We look forward to working with the federal government to move these projects forward,” Ford said.

That will be news to anyone that has been listening to Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals.

“We have a large amount of money ready to be invested in tangible infrastructure projects like public transit, and the provincial government under Doug Ford does not want to partner with us to make those investments,” Trudeau said at an announcement in Kitchener last April.

Of course, that is nothing but politics.

The joint federal/provincial Investing in Canada Infrastructure Programbegan accepting applications for transit funding outside of the GTHA on April 2.

By the time the deadline arrived May 28, the province had nominated 134 projects for funding.