Who’s Doug Ford trying to please? GlobeDebate
CommentsDoug Ford loves the three-word slogan. Following on For the People and Open for Business, he has made it his priority to Get Ontario Moving. No fan of nuance, Premier Ford paints a dire picture of the province’s mobility “crisis”: He describes Ontarians as paralyzed, highways clogged, subways packed and people left stranded. But thankfully, in his words, “relief is on the way.”
It was a curious endorsement from a Minister whose government’s first act was to scrap Ontario’s cap and trade program and with it, the rebate on electric and hydrogen vehicles before cancelling the province’s Drive Clean vehicle emissions-testing program. The attitude seems to be: don’t support environmental behaviour but praise it, as needed, when it happens to happen.
On the question of safety, the Minister responded to the undeniable fact that higher speeds raise the risk of fatalities – speed caused 83 of the 483 fatalities on Ontario’s highways in 2016, according to Ministry statistics – by emphasizing that the proposed increase is a minor one. “We’re not going to become the Autobahn,” Mr. Yurek said.
But having had the dubious pleasure of getting a driver’s license in both Ontario and Germany, I would argue that the differences in driving culture between the two places run deep. Ontario’s certification felt like a beach holiday compared with the north-face ascent that is the German driver’s test.
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