I would like to thank Dave Reilly from Hanmer in my riding for these petitions.
“Improve Winter Road Maintenance on Northern Highways....
“Whereas highways play a critical role in northern Ontario;
“Whereas winter road maintenance has been privatized in Ontario and contract standards are not being enforced;
“Whereas per capita, fatalities are twice as likely to occur on a northern highway than on a highway in southern Ontario;
“Whereas current MTO classification negatively impacts the safety of northern highways;
“We, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly ... as follows:
“To classify Highways 11, 17, 69, 101 and 144 as class 1 highways; require that the pavement be bare within eight hours of the end of a snowfall and bring the management of winter road maintenance back into the public sector, if contract standards are not met.”
I support this petition. I will affix my name it and ask my good page Sharmin to bring it to the Clerk.