Even if it were just about…

Even if it were just about bike lanes, this bill would be utterly idiotic. Bike lanes are a near-universal net good. Even if it weren't for the fact that they encourage biking and get cars off the road, bicycle-vehicle collisions, injuries and fatalities continue to occur at a completely unacceptable rate, meaning that this decision to put additional red tape in the way is directly against the public good.

Moreover, the bill contains language completely unrelated to bike lanes, specifically relating to removing environmental assessment steps for highway construction and speeding land expropriation for the same. This signals the bill's true intention: this shortsighted, dangerous stance on bike lanes is nothing more than a smokescreen providing cover for yet more accountability dodging related to the proposed highway 413, a highway that expert planners agree is unnecessary and a massive waste of taxpayer money, and serves only to benefit property developers with direct personal and financial ties to Doug Ford.

As this bill is coming from a position of brazen bad faith, is against the public good, flies in the face of all logic and proposes regulatory exceptions for a matter of significant conflict of interest, I urge that it be scrapped in its entirety.