The Doug Ford government wanted to make sure that Ontario’s newly appointed transportation minister was armed with key messaging on 10 of the province’s “top contentious issues,” including multiple transit projects, when he took over the file in June.
Heavy construction machinery is seen on normally busy stretch of Queen Street in Toronto on Monday, May 1, 2023. Downtown drivers and transit riders will have to navigate a roadway closure and a number of TTC detours due to the upcoming construction of the downtown Ontario Line subway. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
The 366-page binder for MPP Prabmeet Sarkaria includes an outline of the ministry’s role, agencies and partners; a financial overview; a breakdown of who the minister should contact in his first month on the job; and 60 pages of key messaging and speaking notes for the province’s most “contentious” transit projects.
Among the contentious transit projects are a number of projects in the Greater Toronto Area, including the Eglinton Crosstown, the Ontario Line, the Scarborough Subway Extension, Finch West LRT, and Highway 413. The 15.6-kilometre Ontario Line was a flagship promise of the premier’s back in 2019 and is expected to run from the current Ontario Science Centre to Exhibition or Ontario Place.
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