On a tour of meet-and-greet events along the Hwy. 11 corridor, candidate for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, Ted Hsu is seeing what’s wrong with the highway.
He says it needs bigger shoulders and more rumble strips before it’s more heavily used during the upcoming mining boom in the north.
And then there are worries about accidents.
“Are the drivers being trained properly to drive in winter conditions, or are they being pressed to drive too much in one day?,” he asks. “All of these questions need to be answered, and I know people in the winter are often afraid, just afraid to drive on the highway because of all the accidents.”
Hsu is the MPP for Kingston and the Islands. He’s one of five candidates for the Liberal leadership. It will be decided in a vote in November.
HSU ON HANDLING HOMELESSNESS AND ADDICTIONS
Hsu — the MPP for Kingston and the Islands — has a definite idea how to tackle Ontario’s combined homelessness and drug abuse problem.
His candidacy for the Liberal leadership is part of a larger plan to be the next premier. At a meet-and-greet event Tuesday night in Timmins, he said he would have the province take over the funding for treating addictions.
“It’s a province-wide problem,” he said, “and so instead of forcing municipalities to pay for it or getting municipalities to kind of beg the provincial government every couple years to renew a grant or something like that, I think the provincial government should take over responsibility for dealing with addictions.”
Hsu continues his stops in the region with meet-and-greets Wednesday in Cochrane, Hearst and Kapuskasing; then Moonbeam Thursday morning before heading to Sudbury.
