Everything about this bill…

Everything about this bill is completely divorced from any honest intention to improve the lives of Ontarians or solve real problems.

This highway to nowhere is destroying our environment solely to enrich wealthy landowners close to the premier and should never be built. If I have the opportunity or power to delay it in any way, I will not hesitate. We do not need a highway, we need a modern rail network capable of moving many more people at over twice the speed of any highway, or nonsensical tunnel, you could build.

Bike lanes being removed or roadblocked is not only a gross overreach into the jurisdiction of fairly elected municipalities, it is also directly counterproductive to easing traffic. Traffic congestion is, by definition, an over abundance of cars in an area. The solution is therefore simple - reduce the number of cars. You do this by providing alternatives to driving: safe and convenient biking. Rail. Walking. Everyone taking one of these modes is not a car clogging your street. Furthermore, do you think all cyclists just disappear if there isn't a dedicated lane for them? No, absent a bike lane, the road is a bike lane and you'll have to drive at the speed of a cyclist because cyclists have no safe way to get out of the way.

This nonsense is yet another reason I will be encouraging anyone who will listen to vote for Marit Stiles of the NDP next election. Anyone reading this (that means you), please vote NDP for the sake of our province.