Jessica Bell

Doug Ford's government introduced Bill 110 to seize all of Little Norway Park — a children's playground and waterfront green space beside two schools and a daycare — to expand Billy Bishop Airport into a jet hub, with no plan, no environmental assessment, and no guarantee the park won't become a parking lot.

NDP MPP for University–Rosedale. Delivered approximately 60 minutes of second reading debate against Bill 110 on May 4–5, 2026, warning of health impacts from ultrafine particles emitted by jet aircraft, noise pollution affecting waterfront residents, and the economic damage to Toronto's tourist economy from airport expansion.

Ford's Bill 98 strips Toronto and the TTC Board of all authority over fares, service standards, and transit governance — handing the Minister of Transportation unchecked power to set prices, zones, and routes for the first time in over a century. Transit workers, riders, city council, and even TTC management are unanimous in opposition, but Ford's majority means the bill will pass.

NDP MPP Jessica Bell raised at Queen's Park that Bill 98 does not restore provincial funding to cover 50% of municipal transit operating costs — costs the province downloaded onto cities years ago. Bell called on the government to ensure fare changes come with compensating subsidies and opposed the removal of TTC Board authority over fares.