Key Vote: DVP Widening

More alarmingly, the motion suggested that the study to expand the DVP be carried out by a private corporation, which would then be able to bid on building an expanded road. The private sector should not be carrying out the city’s responsibilities, especially when it is given the incentive of healthy profits at some point in the future. The city has gone down this road before, in the disastrous MFP computer leasing deal.

Vote Essentials:
That a private company, the Ontario Road Development Corporation, be allowed to study an expansion of the Don Valley Parkway

Voting FOR a study on expanding the DVP: 16
Balkissoon, Berardinetti, Di Giorgio, Disero, Duguid, Feldman, Flint, Holyday, Kelly, Korwin-Kuczynski, Lastman, Li Preti, Lindsay Luby, Moeser, Nunziata, Sutherland

Voting AGAINST a study on expanding the DVP: 20
Ashton, Bussin, Cho, Chow, Filion, Hall, Johnston, Jones, McConnell, Mihevc, Miller, Minnan-Wong, Moscoe, Ootes, Pantalone, Pitfield, Rae, Shiner, Silva, Walker

Vote Date: November 2001

Vote Specifics: Amendment (a) to Clause No. 2 of Report No. 11 of The Planning and Transportation Committee, headed "Preliminary Proposal to Expand the Don Valley Parkway".

For more information, see the City Council Minutes. (PDF file opens in a new window.)