Community members opposed to Highway 413 are organizing walks and bike rides on Saturday that pass through sections of farmland, forests and the Greenbelt threatened by the proposed route.
  • spyd4r@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    9 months ago

    “underused 407”. Well, how do you fix that when it’s privately run and the most expensive rolled highway in the world. Lol

    • Vathsade
      22·
      9 months ago

      Which was sold to a foreign entity by the same government saying it’s underused.

      The conservative party is such a drain on prosperity for all… and now the leopards are eating the faces of the rurals that voted for them. And they won’t learn.

      • Avid Amoeba
        6·
        9 months ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_407?wprov=sfla1

        As of August 2022 and unchanged since 2019, ownership of the 407 ETR Concession Company Limited (“407 ETR”), the operator/manager of the highway, is as follows:

        • Indirectly owned subsidiaries of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 50.01%
        • Cintra Global S.E., a subsidiary of Spanish firm Ferrovial S.A. 43.23%
        • SNC Lavalin 6.76%

        Technically it’s majorly Canadian-owned when you add SNC and CPP’s ownership. Doesn’t change the rest of the point much.

        • jsdz@lemmy.ml
          31·
          9 months ago

          the former United Farmers party

          Well I don’t know what happened really, but at a guess maybe it had something to do with all the farmers who sold out to either the big “agribusiness” operators that have largely replaced them or to housing developers. Concentration of ownership has been a problem in many industries, but rarely have the effects been so dramatic as in farming. Since the heyday of the United Farmers of Canada there are 75% fewer farms in Canada, and 233% more Canadians. Living in a “rural” area no longer means you’re all that likely to own a farm,

    • Luci
      4·
      9 months ago

      But it’s so well maintained