NightOwl

So, if more lanes and bigger roads don't alleviate traffic, why doesn't the province invest in more robust public transit? The government has already expanded GO train services by 15% on existing lines in the greater Golden Horseshoe. If the goal was to alleviate traffic in this region, would it not make more sense to create more GO Transit lines and provide alternatives to being stuck in traffic?

As is the trend in Canadian politics, the goal is not to solve public issues, but rather to enrich private coffers. A 2021 National Observer investigation highlighted that eight of Ontario's biggest real estate developers own land near the proposed route of Highway 413.

The developers listed in the report are: Cortellucci, De Gasperis, Guglietti and De Meneghi families, John Di Poce, Benny Marotta, Argo Development and Fieldgate Homes. The De Gasperis family was implicated in the Greenbelt Scandal, having used seven of their companies to buy protected land that Doug Ford would have opened for development.

All the developers listed above have been prolific donators to the Ontario PCs, having donated money in the tens of thousands either to the party directly or to the Conservative third-party foundation Ontario Proud.

“This is a [board] captured by an incumbent industry,” Drew Yewchuk, a lawyer who works with the University of Calgary’s public interest law clinic, said. “Their board is stacked with people who are in favour of the gas industry and are very familiar with the gas industry, and it has a competing industry in renewables. That is a problem for the fairness of the [operator].”

Experts generally agree it is good to have industry experience on boards since it gives them more insight and background, but not necessarily when that experience is coming from a single corporation.

“It’s not unusual for there to be appointments from the relevant sectors. To have three people from the same company who have a direct interest in the matters dealt by the board, does start to look a little bit funny,” Mark Winfield, a professor of environmental and urban change at York University said in an interview. “The whole thing is just bizarre.”

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The judgment stands as damning evidence of systemic racism in Quebec policing

and of Legault's ongoing denial of its existence. According to a statement by the Red Coalition, an anti-racism lobby group, his dismissal and inaction to confront the problem seems to have emboldened race-based discrimination in Quebec.

In September, this led the group to call on the Quebec government to urgently create legislation to help stop the rise in racial injustices and hate crimes, and to provide a legal framework to combat systemic discrimination.

The views of the Legault government lie in stark contrast to those of Quebecers. A 2021 study by the Association for Canadian Studies found that 66 per cent of residents believed that the term is an accurate description of the type of discrimination and prejudice experienced by minorities in the province.

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Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump’s appeal — and they failed. The Democrats are a party of college graduates, as the whole world understands by now, of Ph.D.s and genius-grant winners and the best consultants money can buy. Mr. Trump is a con man straight out of Mark Twain; he will say anything, promise anything, do nothing. But his movement baffled the party of education and innovation. Their most brilliant minds couldn’t figure him out.