Ontario's own consultants warned this Highway 413 route would “maximize incursions into the Greenbelt” and “undermine the credibility' of the entire project. Doug Ford's government pick it, anyway.
At one of the most environmentally sensitive sections of the proposed, the province ignored the advice of its own consultants and chose a route that would cause “maximum incursions” into the Greenbelt, farmland and wildlife habitat, according to internal provincial documents seen by the Star.
“Wildlife will be affected, the environment will be destroyed, and God knows what it’s going to do to the watershed,” said Vaughan resident Michael DiMuccio, who lives near the 900-hectare reserve near Kirby and Huntington Roads. Marilyn Iafrate, a Vaughan councillor, filed the access to information request with MTO, and hundreds of pages of results were shared exclusively with the Star.
“The larger question here is, what or who is informing these choices the government is making?” said Mark Winfield, a York University professor in the faculty of environmental and urban change. “And it begs the question: are these decisions being thought through, or is this being done to accommodate particular interests that have connections to the government?”
Assessment, and the Transportation Ministry is preparing an initial project description, which will be used to assess if an impact assessment is required.
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