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Hon. Caroline Mulroney

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • York—Simcoe
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Unit 9 45 Grist Mill Rd. Holland Landing, ON L9N 1M7 Caroline.Mulroneyco@pc.ola.org
  • tel: 905-895-1555
  • fax: 905-895-0337
  • Caroline.Mulroney@pc.ola.org

  • Government Page
  • Mar/29/23 10:40:00 a.m.

In the early days of our first mandate, the Premier laid out our government’s plan to build badly needed transit in the greater Toronto area, and that includes the signature new Ontario Line.

Since those early days, we’ve taken our responsibility to taxpayers very seriously. That’s why our government passed, with no help from that member or the members of the opposition, the Building Transit Faster Act—because we know that time is money.

In addition to being able to deliver value for taxpayers, we also need to have a competitive procurement process, which is why our government decided to break up the procurement for the Ontario Line into three separate packages. As we refined estimates for those packages, they were commercially sensitive, but as soon as those contracts were awarded and have been awarded, they have been publicly posted online with their values. The South Civil has been valued at $6 billion, and a contract for the rolling stock, systems, and operations and maintenance has been valued at $9 billion.

The member opposite wants to talk about—

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