‘A highway to nowhere’: Green Party Leader, community advocates, push back against GTA West Highway

Photo by Joel Wittnebel

“This highway is a disaster from a climate perspective, it’s a disaster from a paving over farmland and being able to feed ourselves perspective, it’s a disaster from a water filtration and managing clean drinking water, and it’s a disaster from a flood perspective, and I would argue it’s a complete waste of money,” Schreiner, the Leader of Ontario’s Green Party, says.

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The PC government is steamrolling ahead with its plans for Highway 413 which will run along the edge of the Greenbelt and down Brampton’s west side. 

Community advocates have seen enough and are once again mobilizing to fight the project. They are trying to prevent the environmental degradation that would be brought on by the major roadway and the ensuing development. 

Published in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga on September 20, 2020