“If built, the road will raze 2,000 acres of farmland, cut across 85 waterways and pave nearly 400 acres of protected Greenbelt land in Vaughan. It would also disrupt 220 wetlands and the habitats of 10 species-at-risk, according to the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority,” according to the report. The project is a ghost road; it’s been bandied about since its introduction in 2005 in various incarnations, but was killed by the previous Liberal government in 2018 as being too dangerous to the environment, including flood plains. Ford brought it roaring back, despite in 2018 saying, “[t]he people have spoken – we won’t touch the greenbelt. Very simple. That’s it, the people have spoken. I’m going to listen to them, they don’t want me to touch the greenbelt, we won’t touch the greenbelt. Simple as that.”