How could you possibly want…

How could you possibly want to exempt ANY major infrastructure project from meeting environmental assessments? I mean, I am honestly gobsmacked by the lack of forward thinking and the blatant disregard for our environment in an effort to push through a highway that we don't need.

Ideally, we need to stop building highways - but if the Ford government needs me to explain it to them like they are five....

1. Learn something about induced demand. Adding more highways is not going to make travelling in the province any easier. While it will ease congestion for a brief time, it is simply going to push the problem onto another government and another generation. Start being forward/future thinking please!

2. We have a highway (407) that could ease congestion on the 401. Make better use of it. Move truck traffic there. Take the tolls off. Whatever, but make more effective use of the infrastructure that we already have before putting billions into building new highways.

3. We don't need legislation that helps us to build highways faster because we don't need more highways. We need legislation that helps build greater infrastructure that moves MORE people, not more cars - busses, bikes, trains.

4. We cannot replace what is lost in environmental terms. Full stop. We should expect the province - which is supposed to be governing for now and for the future - to meet the most stringent environmental standards - not removing those standards.

5. Check out the two links I've included. One provides simple insight into why more people on transit/bikes is better than more people in cars on the road. The second is an even more simplified version in case the government can't understand the first one.