A recent PC government report on the controversial Highway 413 project, pushed by Doug Ford and Ontario’s powerful residential development industry, acknowledges devastating environmental consequences including threats to at-risk species and the likely destruction of sensitive ecosystems.
Experts and advocates say the report, despite its findings, completely ignores established science, eschews best practices for protecting the environment and brushes aside the destructive ripple effect the highway will have across Ontario.
This is being done to justify the most ecologically damaging route.
Ontarians were given five weeks to review and respond to the lengthy technical analysis detailing the impact on protected species and hundreds of hectares of natural land. The proposed highway will carve up portions of the Greenbelt, irreversibly destroy large swaths of the province’s most pristine and fertile farmland and alter or contaminate 107 streams, rivers and watercourses.
Read more at: A ‘highway to hell’: Developer driven 413 will have devastating environmental impacts, internal report admits – The Pointer, January 24, 2026