I'd like to make a comment on one particular facet of infrastructure, and that is the highway system. We come from a very busy part of southern Ontario. This is the Mississauga region where the 401 intersects with the 407. The 401 is going to be widened through our section of Meadowvale to 12 lanes, which we have no objection to; in fact, we're welcoming it, because it's been progressing slowly to the west. It's now as far as Mavis.
I'm going to take this opportunity to mention that over the past two years we have lobbied with the provincial government that when they widen this to 12 lanes, they are going to leave this particular flood plain where it goes through at the Credit River as a paved goat path, and just repave what they have. It's a huge dip, and for such a critical piece of federal infrastructure to be left in the hands of the province....
I think the feds and the province need to work together to make that first-class, flat, level bridge going across, like the Romans did a thousand years ago, and allow freight to move through. It's a big problem in the GTA for gridlock, and over the 50 years that this piece will be in place, it will drain the economy by billions of dollars in wasted fuel and time.