Premier Ford, don’t just carry on with business, make history

BY STEVEN KASZAB

Greetings Premier Ford. I hope and pray you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

You have done a great deal for our province, and I hope you continue to do so. Money will become tight as you know and with the demands of the public for more and better services your administration needs to pick the financial fights and invest for the near future. I have heard that some in your administration may want to tunnel under the 401. Can you think that back for a moment?

100 billion is a lot of money, and like the Liberals idea of selling the Highway 407, such ideas need to be thought out completely. Perhaps your zeal for better this and that can be fulfilled in other ways.

Rapid speed trains throughout the province. Many Torontonians will be moving away from Southern Ontario due to the rising costs of housing, and pretty well everything else. Speed trains connect communities far and wide and are cheaper than tunnels that need constant maintenance.

There is a sector within our community that is burdened with health costs that often lead to bankruptcy. Name it Premier. Autism of children and adults demand much from their parents including undue financial costs. I know you have tried to help, but it certainly is not enough. Perhaps centers for the autistic and other such illnesses can be established. These institutions (closed long ago by Premier Harris) should be reactivated, modernized so communities whose members are ill can live their lives while being medically assisted. Turn the 100 billion in that direction.

Schools need to be modernized as well. Toronto must be left to deal with its own problems, many of which are the cause. Over population of Metropolitan Toronto can be dealt with through Premier’s decree, encouraging Torontonians to travel the province in search of moderately priced homes, and a future established.

Premier, the Mid-Northern province needs bodies to fill it, develop and populate it for future’s sake. Have the courage to encourage and direct people to move elsewhere in Ontario and ultimately make the province grow. Such a scheme is deserving of 100 billion, not a tunnel under an eroding highway.

Premier Ford don’t just carry on with business, but make history. The province is open to your vision. Let it be a vision that can transform Ontario.