Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli responds to recent NDP highway safety criticisms

Fedeli says the Ontario government is strengthening trucking oversight and driver training in response to NDP criticism of highway safety

Article content MPP Vic Fedeli emphasized the provincial Conservatives are taking action to improve highway safety throughout the province, and throughout northern Ontario. “Our government takes trucking safety standards seriously,” Fedeli says. Recommended Videos His comment comes in response to a recent letter issued by four northern Ontario NDP Leaders.

Superior North MPP Lise Vaugeois, John Vanthof (Timiskaming – Cochrane), Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk – James Bay), and Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong) penned the letter. The MPPs allege Ontario’s highways have become unsafe for drivers, citing the many accidents that have recently been plaguing northern highways. “Ontario’s highways have become so unsafe due to failures in trucking oversight that other provinces are being forced to change their own rules to protect their drivers and residents,” Vanthof said in the letter.

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