Ontario’s NDP is promising to remove tolls from the privately owned Highway 407 and initiate a potential purchase of the highway in a pre-election pitch to voters.
is promising to remove tolls from the privately owned Highway 407 for all drivers and initiate a potential purchase of the highway, Global News has learned, in a pre-election pitch to voters days before the writs are set to be issued.
For months, Ford has hinted his party is interested in discussing a Highway 407 purchase and, on Friday, he signalled his party, if re-elected, could address the 407 tolls on the eastern, provincially owned portion of the highway.“Doug Ford has sat on his hands as tolls on the 407 have gone up, afraid to take on the private corporation that makes millions from people just trying to get to work,” NDP Leader Marit Stiles said.
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