This is NOT the…

This is NOT the responsibility of the province!! This is a municipal affair!!! This is incredibly huge oversight and a blatant disregard for the wishes of the residents of Toronto. The statements around this bill have also included false and misleading data, such as Doug Fords claim that only 1.2% of people in Toronto commute by bike

This figure is blatantly misleading, as it covers the entire GTA area, was gathered before bike lanes existed, and is just not up to date!

Removing existing bike lanes will not reduce traffic, modern research on bike lanes has shown that! It will only increase the number of deaths and injuries due to car and cyclist interactions.

It's also an incredibly huge waste of money to remove these bike lanes, one of which is incredibly new!

As no other bike lanes in the province except for the ones on or near Doug Ford's commute have currently been targeted for removal, this proposal reads like the provincal leadership wants to hurt Torontians personally to make it's conservative voter base happy, and not the politics grounded in accurate modern research I would expect from experienced politicians.

This is a waste of the provinces resources. Like munipalities consult with their citizens on local cycling and car infrastructure and make their own desicions. Use the provincal resources to focus on concerns that affect the whole province, and not micromanaging municipalities.

I now want to address the environmental consequences of this bill

Sneakily hidden within this bill, and not even discussed in the proposal details of this page, is a exemption to the environmental assesment act! This is a blatent disregard for the whole purpose of this act, which is to prevent fast moving projects from causing widespread, difficult to predict, unrecoverable harm to the environment.

> "The Schedule enacts the Highway 413 Act, 2024. Section 2 of the Act provides an exemption from the
Environmental Assessment Act for enterprises, activities, proposals, plans and programs for or related to Highway
413, including the Highway 413 Project and the Highway 413 early works projects. Section 3 prohibits a person
from carrying out the Highway 413 Project except in accordance with the final environmental impact assessment
report and any addenda to it, prepared as part of the environmental impact assessment process that applies to the
Highway 413 Project under this Act. Sections 4 to 9 set out that process, including requirements for an Indigenous
consultation plan and its implementation, as well as opportunities for persons to comment on the draft
environmental impact assessment report and any draft addendum to the report. The Minister is required to publish
draft and final environmental impact assessment reports and any final addendum under the Act."

It is incredibly misleading that the proposal on the previous page just talks about the bike aspect, and leaves this aspect out, and I feel my government is actively trying to deceive me. I am deeply concerned, in an era of incredibly fast moving damage to our environment and degradation of our natural environment due to climate change, resource extraction, and rapid unchecked development, that this government is even considering trying to increase the pace of that degredation by allowing highway development with a disregard to the environmental impact, and setting a precedent for the future with this exemption.

As a Ontario resident, and as a resident of downtown Toronto, I implore you to listen to your constituents and reject this bill wholesale. I haven't even talked about the entire bill, and I hope other constituents do, as there are only very small parts that I would accept, such as the driver's license fees.

Please listen to your constituents, and reject this bill. Act like knowledgable, experienced politicians and actually communicate to your constituents what this bill is about in the description and don't deceive them. I expected more from my government.