Happy motoring
Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca has a creepy way announcing things. Today he tweeted a video in which his caricature is seen as a bobble head racing back and forth across a background that says HOT Lanes (inset). It is his way of saying that tomorrow he will give details on high occupancy toll lanes for Ontario highways and roads. There has been talk of letting well-heeled drivers with zero passengers buy into the HOT concept. The idea is instinctively unpopular. An online poll on the CP24 website shows 75 percent of respondents give it a thumbs down. It is a safe guess that we would never had heard of HOT lanes if the provincial debt were not nearing $300 billion, the highest per capita of any non-sovereign jurisdiction in the world, including cash-strapped California Happy motoring. Jonathon Goldsbie
