I am strongly against this…

I am strongly against this legislation.

I am completely against enacting an exemption from the Environmental Assessment Act for enterprises, activities, proposals, plans and programs for or related to Highway 413. We absolutely need to maintain environmental assessments, we aren't doing enough to safeguard against climate change so let's not do even less.

This is a short-sighted policy that will result in disastrous outcomes for the environment.The proposal that this highway should be exempted from any environmental assessment to expedite development suggests the government doesn’t care whatsoever about the environment and, again, is not serious about eliminating gridlock: more roads means more cars which means more traffic. I doubt any urban planners, engineers or other credentialed experts were consulted at all in the creation of this bill.

And leave the bike lanes alone. First of all, why is the Ontario government interfering in a city's business? Toronto residents and municipal government are more than capable of deciding for themselves. Toronto needs more transportation options not less, and we all need to decrease our driving and reliance on fossil fuels. The only way to reduce gridlock and traffic is to reduce cars. Successful ways to do this would be adding more bike lanes and expanding transit to make cities less car-centric, implementing congestion charges and other policies to help get people out of cars and using alternative forms of transportation.

Blatantly ignoring evidence based solutions because the Premier has decided he has a beef with bike lanes for some reason will make gridlock worse, not better, and your time and our tax payer money would be better spent addressing issues like Healthcare and Education, that are actually the province's responsibility, instead of micromanaging municipal affairs. If the Premier wants to be mayor of Toronto so badly, he should resign and run in the next election, and leave being Premier to someone who knows what they are doing.