Ontario election: NDP says it would initiate purchase of Hwy. 407, remove tolls [Video]

The Ontario NDP is promising to remove tolls from the privately owned Highway 407 for all drivers and initiate a potential purchase of the highway, Global News has learned, in a pre-election pitch to voters days before the writs are set to be issued.

Ontarians will head to the polls on Feb. 27 for an early general election after Premier Doug Ford revealed late last week that he intends to dissolve his majority government and call an early election on Wednesday.

For months, Ford has hinted his party is interested in discussing a Highway 407 purchase and, on Friday, he signalled his party, if re-elected, could address the 407 tolls on the eastern, provincially owned portion of the highway.

The NDP is looking to make the entire 407 a key election issue.

“Doug Ford has sat on his hands as tolls on the 407 have gone up, afraid to take on the private …