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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
September 27, 2023 09:00AM

A couple of things: Obviously, filling an hour, you’ve got a lot of leeway, moving back and forth with parts of debate, but there is one thing that struck me, which is the lack of movement on previous governments. You mentioned my father’s government. We can blame them for this too. I’m with you on this one. There wasn’t enough foresight, I think, for a lot of previous governments to really see how big and how quickly Ontario was going to grow over the last 20 to 30 years and how far behind we truly were with transit.

I was a former small business owner—the member from Waterloo will know this well—in Waterloo region, and I actually had to close a business because of transit construction delays on King Street with our LRT, and it was tough. I’ve been through it. I understand what it’s like and how disruptive it can be. But could you imagine, if we aren’t getting shovels in the ground now and trying to really bridge the gap and really catch up, how much worse it’s going to be in another 20 years, when we have even more exponential growth?

I guess my question is—I know you don’t want to stand in the way of transit projects and moving things forward—will you support this bill, and can we expect you to work with us on trying to make transit better here in the province?

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