A Ministry of Infrastructure video by the Government of Ontario.  It is about the Government’s work to expand High-way 69 (hehe) by 2 lanes between Sudbury and Perry Sound.  The work is slated to be done by 2017 and costs who knows what.

I found it interesting because essentially the Government is boasting that it is expanding a high-way in order to create jobs and “enhance economic opportunity”.

You heard that right: we are building roads to create jobs.  

Now I’m sure it will improve transportation between the two cities, making the region more productive.  I’m less convinced that the added lanes will necessarily lead to less accidents, but I’m willing to give that a pass.  What concerns me is that we are trying to fix an economy (the globe economy, of which Canada is very much a part of) by feeding the very forces which cause its problems.

Cars, roads, houses, mortgages.  

Why are we destroying our planet in order to feed this insane economic system?