I am opposed to almost all…

I am opposed to almost all of this bill.

We can start with schedule 4. Preventing bike lane construction, and taking away the ability of local government to build bike lanes where needed, takes away individual freedom by removing and reducing an option for safe local travel. Provincial government is simply too large and too far removed from the local level to make decisions on bike lanes across the province. No planners, and indeed no data I'm aware of from anywhere in the world, support avoiding construction of or the removal of bike lanes as a way to improve traffic, the ostensible reason for this part of the bill.

Schedule 3 speeds up the process of assessment, taking away from the public the time to become familiar with and see the results of assessments. Especially for such large and expensive projects, the public deserves a chance to learn and see the assessments in order to form an opinion and discuss it with their MP.

Schedule 2 takes away more rights and freedoms from citizens. Rather than any ability to have individual circumstances reviewed and involve a judge to evaluate those circumstances, it allows the bureaucracy of the provincial government to dictate what people must do and when they must leave their property with no respect for the individual.

Besides all this bill does to remove existing rights and freedoms from citizens, my view at this point is that highway 413 in particular does not have enough net public benefit to be justified. Using schedule 3 to start the process before full assessment is done suggests the current government values completing the project over all else, but they should be concerned about overall value to the public. In other words, bill 212 is simply helping to support wasteful spending.