A toll highway that stretches across the Greater Toronto Area is eliciting differing pledges from Ontario’s major parties as campaign promises continue apace.
On Wednesday, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford was in Durham Region to announce his commitment to removing tolls from the public portion of Highway 407.
The toll route, which runs roughly parallel to the gridlocked 401, has been a central debate in provincial politics for some time.
At the beginning of the campaign, the Ontario NDP said that, if elected, they would remove tolls for truckers across the entire route and work to buy the highway out of its private lease.
“We’re going to sit down with the company and we’re actually going to get a deal,” Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles said Wednesday.
“We’re going to start right away by removing the tolls on trucks, we’re going to tell the company, ‘That’s it, tolls off trucks …