Which means that if Mayor John Tory is zapped by his plan for road tolls, Premier Kathleen Wynne won’t be insulated from that high voltage linkage, writes Martin Regg Cohn. Which means that if Mayor John Tory is zapped by his plan for road tolls, Premier Kathleen Wynne won’t be insulated from that high voltage linkage. Wynne couldn’t muster the public backing or political will to push through road pricing after becoming premier in 2013. The current PC leader, Patrick Brown, insists with a straight face that road pricing isn’t needed because he’ll just eliminate waste to find the funding. Why are conservatives so slow to recognize that road pricing is the right economic tool to allocate scarce resources (expressway lanes) while meeting surging demand?

Source: thestar November 26, 2016 01:47 UTC