Ontario to remove tolls on part of Highway 407, make gas tax cut permanent

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 13, 2025 11:25 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Ontario drivers are acceptable to payment from the province's upcoming budget as the Ford authorities announced Tuesday that it volition marque a state taxation chopped imperishable and region tolls from the provincially owned information of Highway 407.

Ford promised those moves during the provincial predetermination and says they volition mean existent and contiguous alleviation for people.

The authorities temporarily chopped the provincial state taxation complaint by 5.7 cents and diesel by 5.3 cents successful July 2022 and has repeatedly extended the cuts since then.

Ford announced contiguous that Thursday's fund volition incorporate a measurement to marque the chopped permanent, keeping the provincial complaint of taxation astatine 9 cents per litre.

As well, the fund volition permanently region tolls from the provincially operated Highway 407 East, from Pickering to Clarington, Ont.

The Ford government's latest measurement does not code earlier calls from the Green Party and advocates to subsidize tolls on Highway 407. During the provincial predetermination earlier this year, Ontario NDP person Marit Stiles pledged to get escaped of tolls connected the 407 for each drivers if elected premier. 

A Ministry of Transportation study successful 2021 projected those tolls would make the state astir $72 cardinal successful gross successful 2024-25.