Ford, who wants to spend billions and billions on a traffic tunnel under Highway 401 in Toronto, has been badly shortchanging Ottawa on transit money, two analyses have found.

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In the midst of Mayor Mark Sutcliffe’s “fairness for Ottawa” campaign, Ontario Premier Doug popped up to promise a multi-billion-dollar tunnel under Highway 401 in the Greater Toronto Area to make driving easier and more comfortable for suburban commuters.

The tunnel would go from Brampton to Scarborough, a distance of about 55 kilometres, and one expert put the cost at $1 billion a kilometre. Ford, however, assures all of us that it won’t cost “hundreds of billions of dollars,” for which, I guess, provincial taxpayers in Ottawa should be grateful.

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But think about this, Ottawa: Here is a premier who can’t find money for transit in the city, but........

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