Statement by Michael Hutchings

For the past thirteen years, the City of Hamilton has been working on bringing higher level transit in the form of LRT connecting Stoney Creek to McMaster University.

In one callous move, Minister Mulroney cancelled the province's financial support for this city building project.

In 2018 Premier Ford commented that he supported building the LRT as an "investment that will create jobs...and stimulate economic development."

For thirteen years, the citizens and government of Hamilton have worked tirelessly to create a comprehensive plan for regional transit. Years of hard work and investment was cast aside. Why is Mississauga's transit continuing and Hamilton's no longer necessary?

While you provide figures to do this, you won't provide the source of these figures or how they were generated. We are three months away from the final bids - why couldn't the province wait until the final bids were in before scrapping the project altogether?

The thing that shocked me the most was that Hamilton wasn't even given an opportunity to see the numbers, provide the province with alternatives or at least even investigate other options.

Please do the right thing and let Hamilton get back on track.

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