Second, I have already provided structural engineering proof that over twenty (20), perhaps as many as seventy (70), highway bridges built over the past ten (10) years in Ontario Province were under-designed by 30% of the total combined truck live load plus dead loads.  However, without government power, I will not be able to get these under-designed bridges rebuilt at no cost to tax payers, or hold accountable those in positions of trust who conspired to cover up the crime of doctoring/falsifying bridge load test results, or hold financially liable the private sector engineering companies that fumbled the structural analysis of the said highway bridges. To support my argument on the need for my election to Parliament, consider that it has been six (6) years since a Tribunal of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) that heard the matter in 2017 recommended that the allegations of deliberate falsification and doctoring of bridge load test results (by MTO engineers) for the Sturgeon River Bridge (located in Northwestern Ontario) be seriously considered and the conclusions published.  Nothing has happened on that recommendation.  Professional Engineers Ontario has not lifted a finger nor has the Ministry of Transportation Ontario.  It is well established that the accused is never going to bring themselves to justice.  That responsibility falls to the elected representatives of the people and I am hereby stepping up and volunteering to take on that responsibility as a member of Parliament in Ottawa.

Once I’m in Parliament, I will not stop at climate change resilience rating of Ontario’s highway bridges, the reconstruction of over twenty (20) deficient highway bridges in Ontario at no cost to tax payers, the criminal prosecution of those in positions of trust who doctored/falsified bridge load test results or conspired to cover up the crime of doctoring/falsifying bridge load test results, and holding financially liable the private sector engineering companies that fumbled the structural analysis of the said highway bridges.  I have many other good ideas that I will table in Parliament, including ideas on democracy reform. 

In the meantime, the people of the Riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s (and the people of Ontario at large) need to know that this has not been a joy-ride undertaking.  My engineering career and my family’s quality of life have suffered greatly as a result of my decision to insist that the improperly designed bridges be remedied.  But I am determined to see this through.