P.E.I. politicians call on Ottawa to reduce bridge, ferry tolls by Canada Day [Video]

Mark Carney’s promise on the campaign trial to cut bridge and ferry tolls came without one thing —a timeline. Now, calls are growing louder for the prime minister to say when that will happen. CBC’s Wayne Thibodeau has the story.

Canada Day would be a good deadline for Prime Minister Mark Carney to deliver on his campaign promise to reduce tolls on the Confederation Bridge and Northumberland Ferries service, says Egmont MP Bobby Morrissey.

“July 1 would be an ideal timeline,” Morrissey said. “I will push with the government and with the prime minister until we have this in place.”

Morrissey wrote to Carney last week emphasizing the importance of timing and suggesting that Canada Day would be a “symbolic day for Islanders.”

Egmont MP Bobby Morrissey is calling on the federal government to reduce the Confederation Bridge toll and Northumberland Ferries fares by July 1. (CBC)

It would also be a realistic date, he said.

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