PETITION

(Action on Highway 7 Four-Laning)

TO the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

WHEREAS the Previous Progressive Conservative government committed $85 million to four lane Highway 7, between Highway 417 and Carleton Place; and

WHEREAS Lanark-Carleton MPP Norm Sterling announced this project when he was Transportation Minister because it will save lives and greatly improve traffic flow; and

WHEREAS the current Environment Minister failed to deal with two environmental challenges in an expeditious fashion; and

WHEREAS the Ministry of Transportation has warned that this delay means the project won’t start for at least one year; and

WHEREAS lives are being put unnecessarily at risk by any further delay of this project;

 WE the undersigned petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as follows:

To ensure that Premier Dalton McGuinty intervenes to ensure that the Ministry of Transportation is taking all actions necessary to start this Highway 7 four-laning project in the 2004 construction season.

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Attention: Norm Sterling – MPP, Lanark-Carleton

Room 241NW, Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON, M7A 1A8