I respectfully ask that the…

I respectfully ask that the Ontario government withdraw Bill 212 that would block municipality's (including the city of Ottawa's) ability to make the best decisions for their people.

My family regularly uses the bike lanes that the Premier Ford has just promised to tear up. We use them to go to school, to work, to shop, to visit friends, and for every part of our lives. They may not be perfect, but the bike lanes we have make our travel safer, and we appreciate them. There are many aspects of this change that is very disturbing.

For starters, there’s the waste of tens of millions of dollars and months of construction disruption, and now the promise of repeating all those same costs again, just to move backwards.

This is and has always been the responsibility of the mayor and city council. Premier Ford doesn’t represent us, and he never has. Because of outdated constitutional rules, he has the power to overrule the people who are responsible for making these decisions.

Premier Ford has overreached and violated norms of provincial conduct and respect for municipal autonomy.

As a cycling family, we are keeping our car off the roads. Be thankful - one less car.