{"id":40302,"date":"2025-05-19T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=40302"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:00:42","slug":"doug-ford-making-gas-tax-cut-permanent-ending-tolls-on-eastern-section-of-highway-407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=40302","title":{"rendered":"Doug Ford making gas tax cut permanent, ending tolls on eastern section of Highway 407"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/681a61d1aa1ee.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"222\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Ford and Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy are cutting 5.7 cents a litre of the gas tax and eliminating tolls on the provincially operated part of the tollway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/doug-ford-making-gas-tax-cut-permanent-ending-tolls-on-eastern-section-of-highway-407\/article_e9b080cc-1046-4828-b207-4ddf3f347ed1.html\">Doug Ford making gas tax cut permanent, ending tolls on eastern section of Highway 407<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ford has frequently said it was a \u201cbig mistake\u201d for former Tory premier Mike Harris to sign a 99-year lease with a private consortium to operate Highway 407 for $3.1 billion in 1999.<br>It would cost taxpayers an estimated $35 billion to end that contract and return the highway to public hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40305\" width=\"681\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7.png 1004w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7-768x205.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7-675x180.png 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford and Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy are cutting 5.7 cents a litre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[149,147,232,592,231],"class_list":["post-40302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-dougie","tag-ontario","tag-tbm","tag-traffic","tag-tunnels","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40306,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302\/revisions\/40306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}