Tell your MP to stand up to Premier Ford

Thanks for calling your MP about the Impact Assessment of Highway 413.

REQUEST

  • The federal government should designate Hwy 413 for a new Impact Assessment under the revised Impact Assessment act.

KEY QUESTIONS

  • Is my MP aware that Bill 212 will exempt Highway 413 from environmental assessments?
  • Why is the federal government supporting the federal-provincial working group on Highway 413 if Premier Ford has no intention of taking environmental concerns about Highway 413 seriously?
  • Will you ask your colleagues to support an Impact Assessment for Highway 413?

ADDITIONAL POINTS

  • If you have voted for your MP in the past, make sure you share that fact.
  • The federal government did not give up any powers or responsibilities in Memorandum of Understanding on Highway 413.  If the working group isn’t working, they can and should designate the highway for an impact assessment.
  • The federal government has jurisdiction over fisheries, migratory birds, navigable waterways, federally listed endangered species and consultation with Indigenous communities – Highway 413 would threaten all of these values.
  • The Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations submitted to the previous impact assessment and recently spoke out against Premier Ford’s plan to start construction of Highway 413 before completing an Indigenous consultation.
  • Federal government MPs were elected based on commitments to protect the environment and they must deliver on those commitments. The Greenbelt, farmland, the Humber and Credit Rivers and countless wetlands and forests are threatened.