Construction on Highway 413 is set to begin “in the next few days,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Wednesday, although he couldn’t provide an answer when asked how much it would ultimately cost or when it would be completed.

When pressed about those pesky details Wednesday, Ford stepped aside and let Minister of Transpiration Prabmeet Sarkaria take the podium.

“The cost of not building is far, far greater,” said Sarkaria.

Ford and his team were in Caledon Wednesday to announce the awarding of the first two construction contracts for the 52-kilometre highway which will connect Highway 400 in Vaughan, with Highway 401 in Mississauga.

One contract was awarded to Fermar Paving for an embankment at the Highway 401 and Highway 407 interchange, with the second one going to Pave-Al to resur

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