WITHOUT A DOUBT, the roughly $10 million in federal-provincial infrastructure grants to Dufferin municipalities announced last Friday are welcome news.

However, we wonder whether our politicians have done sufficient homework on the subject of needed infrastructure projects in view of the multiple billions that the senior levels of government are supposedly poised to hand out.

We're particularly perplexed at the absence of any grants to the county itself or to the townships of Amaranth, Melancthon and East Luther Grand Valley.

And we wonder why on earth Mono council is standing by its decision to cancel the plan to finish paving 5 Sideroad. Without the senior governments' funding, such projects will cost local taxpayers much, much more.