Ontario Highway 407

I only yell and scream in the car when you let Tony Clement get away with defending a Conservative Party that he would never have been a part of.

Thank you, Steve, for asking about Highway 407." This is the Ontario highway that was-

Mm

... built as a toll highway and which, um, uh, the Mike Harris government sold.

Is this the right approach or not?"

Hmm.

Martha, if you take the selling off of the Highway 407 in Ontario, and if you take the precedent of Hydro One, the, I guess, electricity distribution company that is now...

What is it now? Four...

In fairness, it's not like it's the bucolic Amazon or something.

It's like right beside Highway 407.

And it would make sense, you would think, to have housing there.

But it's designated as Greenbelt land.

Another reminder for commuters, no GO Train service on the Barrie line this weekend due to construction.

For those looking to get to Toronto, GO buses will run between Allendale Waterfront and the Highway 407 terminal, and commuters can transfer from there to the TTC's Metro service.

MetroLink says the closure helps facilitate foundational work for a second track and corridor improvements along the Barrie line.

Customers affected by a power outage in Barrie this morning just after 8 o'clock have had their service restored.

Once again, no GO train service on the Barrie line this weekend due to construction.

For those looking to get down to Toronto, GO buses will run between Allendale Waterfront and the Highway 407 terminal, and commuters can transfer from there to the TTC's Metro service.

Metrolinx says the closures help facilitate foundational work for a second track and corridor improvements along the line.

Barrie Police have confirmed that two men have died as a result of a house fire yesterday afternoon on Alfred Street between Wood Street and Campbell Avenue.

And so this concept is also considered privatization in spite of what they would like to call it.

And we understand this is the type of concept they used with Highway 407 in Ontario.

This is what they often do with services in healthcare as well as in other types of public services.

So they allow private investors to come in and take over the management and the operation without actually owning the actual infrastructure or the land.

"Carney's airport privatization is a looming disaster.

Highway 407 of the skies." For context for the American audience, Highway 407 is, the 407 runs all the way through Ontario, and it was privatized several years ago in what most consider, I think, in retrospect, and a lot of people were, were saying at the time, it was like a historically bad deal.

They privatized the tolls on the road, which is going to amount, amount ov- over the lifetime of it to many billions of dollars more being paid in tolls than would have been under government control.

This idea of privatizing infrastructure, public infrastructure is, I think, just completely insane.

"Mark Carney took another giant step in his right-wing crusade Tuesday, announcing a plan to effectively privatize four of Canada's largest airports, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary.

Liberal pub- pundits, ever the goalpost movers, went from saying Carney would never implement such a Poilievre-style policy to instantly defending it, insisting the media and NDP are fear-mongering and that Carney is merely privatizing the operation of major airports, not the actual airports themselves.

Even if we assume this is true, Carney's plan t- sells our public property for private gain, much as Highway 407 was privatized years ago in Ontario with catastrophic results for the people of the province.

Carney came to power on a vision of standing up to Trump and defending the Canadian way of life.

I did want to note Steph M and Hey Manny G both pointing out in our chat.

I think Supriya was referencing Highway 407, not Highway 401 as privatized.

I'm not sure it's not my neck of the woods, but shout out to you guys on the fact check.

And then, yeah, on the associate membership, Afro Broco says associate membership is a name that probably opens doors that may have been obstructed before.