Today, I rise to celebrate the teamwork and athletic achievement of the Barrie Bombers lacrosse team.

The girls from the Barrie Bombers 15U division are the first Barrie team to win an “A” provincial championship. All the players showed tremendous sportsmanship, from Alexis Brubacher, Kelsey Brubacher, Alyssa Glass, Amelia Zealand, Annika Crouter, Carleigh Hill, Emma Coughlin, Jorja Whalen, Kady Shelswell, Kylie Kumm, Morgan Lowe, Nadia White, Ryley Black, Teagan Setterfield, Willow Davidson and Zoey Maseko.

But there is more to celebrate for Barrie minor lacrosse, as the players from Barrie helped Team Ontario bring home the gold for 14U girls and 12U boys lacrosse. Four members of the Barrie Bombers representing team Ontario 14U girls helped the team win the gold medal national championship game, with a 5-2 win over host British Columbia. Barrie families were cheering on Morgan Lowe, Willow Davidson, Ryley Black and Jorja Whalen as they helped bring gold home for Ontario. This win was followed by the Team Ontario squad wining the 12U national league championship game, where Sebastian Danelon of the Barrie Bombers played on the team to help bring Ontario to victory.

Congratulations to the players, coaches and families.

Thank you to the member from Barrie–Innisfil for the question. Speaker, for decades, previous Liberal governments ignored calls to build the Bradford Bypass. Under this Premier’s leadership, we are finally getting it done.

In the next 30 years, the population of the greater Golden Horseshoe will grow to the size of what Ontario’s population is today: 15 million people. With that in mind, the do-nothing approach of the opposition parties is no longer an option. Speaker, we need to get building. Farmers, families and businesses have been paralyzed by gridlock on our major highways long enough. Building the Bradford Bypass will change that. The new highway is expected to save 35 minutes per trip; that’s more than one hour per day, or five hours per week, that you won’t have to spend behind the wheel.

Speaker, we can’t afford to let gridlock get any worse. The time to act is now. Our government is getting on with the job of finally building the Bradford Bypass.

Thank you, Minister. The Bradford Bypass represents an opportunity for economic growth for all Ontarians. The people of Bradford, Barrie, Innisfil and all of Simcoe county deserve to be respected. They deserve to have their quality of life recognized. Congestion takes hours away from spending time with their families, and that is no longer acceptable.

We saw how the previous Liberal government didn’t get it done. They delayed, deferred, demurred. And when it came to building transit infrastructure—the residents currently are just desperate, because there was no infrastructure.

Can our minister explain how we are getting it done, how we’re building key major infrastructure projects like the Bradford Bypass and how the progress of this project is currently being done?