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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
February 29, 2024 09:00AM

It’s a very good question. What’s the fair thing to do? When the 407 was pitched by the former Rae government, they said it was going to be tolled. In fact, it wouldn’t have been built truly absent those tolls to get the capital in hand. And now, we’re paying back the cost of the highway, and I know there’s a lot of history and a lot of thoughts about that. But 407 is tolled. We know it’s tolled. Everyone has known it’s been tolled, from day one. What people are not terribly happy about is when a road that they paid for through their existing taxes, their existing gas taxes, becomes tolled, because they’ve already paid for it. Should they pay a second time? The maintenance can come from our gas tax, and that’s truly the key difference. If you’ve already paid for the road, you shouldn’t toll it after the fact.

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