By Ottawa Metro News, April 29, 2015
Ontario saved money for taxpayers by contracting out winter road maintenance but
safety was compromised when snowstorms weren’t cleared quickly enough, the
province’s Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk says in a damning new report. “Over the
past five years, winter highway maintenance service levels have declined,” Lysyk
said in her 43-page report following an investigation requested by the
legislature’s public accounts committee. via
Winter roads in Ontario ‘less safe’ since privatization: auditor | Metro.