I can appreciate we need…

I can appreciate we need highways to efficiently move people and goods around the province but we also need to be mindful of our environment. Exempting any projects from a full environmental assessment is both reckless and short sighted. During the pandemic we learned how important it is to have food locally produced. Sacrificing prime farm land for the sake of improving commuting times by a few minutes (let’s use the honest assessment of 2-3 minutes of time savings rather than the government’s inflated figure of 30 minutes), is not worth the investment and loss of land. Studies have shown, if you build more roads they quickly become more congested again as it encourages more people to drive. Let’s keep investing in reliable, cost effective public transportation to get commuters off the roads.