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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/21/23 11:10:00 a.m.

My heart goes out to the family of the victim this weekend in that terrible crash. I can assure the member opposite, as well as all members of this House, that our government takes truck driver safety and training very seriously. Ontario has the most robust commercial licensing system anywhere in Canada, but that doesn’t mean that it’s enough. We are continuing to review our commercial licensing process to make sure that we’re strengthening regulations, to make sure our truck drivers have the training they need when they get out on the road—for themselves as well as for all drivers on Ontario’s roads. Just in January, electronic logging devices became required on Ontario roads and that is something that Ontario was leading the federation in, making sure that Ontario trucks are equipped with electronic logging devices.

But, Mr. Speaker, we’re doing more than just working on truck driver training. We’re ensuring that our roads themselves are made safer. Our government is piloting for the first time in North America a two-plus-one model, which is an innovative model that’s been used in Scandinavia, to make sure that our roads—

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