The Doug Ford government continues to dig in on its plan to build a Hwy. 401 tunnel in the Greater Toronto Area.

The province has earmarked $9.1 million for a feasibility study on the project, according to The Canadian Press, with a spokesperson for the transportation minister saying WSP Canada Inc. was recently awarded a contract.

The announcement came after a request for proposals was issued in the spring .

“Our government is making significant progress on the transformational project to build a tunnel under Hwy. 401 that will get people and goods moving across the province faster,” Dakota Brasier, a spokesperson for Prabmeet Sarkaria, told CP.

News of the contract arrived after Premier Ford insisted this summer that his government was going full throttle on a plan to build the

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