Here’s when part of Highway 407 will become free in Ontario [Video]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced this week that tolls will be removed from part of Highway 407 — making good on a promise from this year’s election campaign.

During the campaign, Ford said that a reelected Progressive Conservative government would remove tolls from the provincially owned portion of the highway.

On Tuesday, the premier announced that will soon be taking place.

“In a few short weeks, once the legislation is passed, there will not be one single publicly owned tolled highway left in Ontario,” Ford said at a press conference.

“And that’s thanks to our government’s ban on new road tolls in the province.”

The Ford government previously removed tolls from Highways 412 and 418 in Durham Region.

The province owns the eastern portion of Highway 407, from Brock Road in Pickering …