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As the debate over the Scarborough subway rages in the Toronto mayoral race, Ontario’s transportation minister was forced on Wednesday to clarify again that the Liberal government is “moving forward” with the transit project, after the finance minister refused to commit to such a position.

“I’m saying here we’re going to build public transit. We’re building subways, we’re building LRTs, we’re building BRTs, we’re building Go Trains. We are building,” Finance Minister Charles Sousa told reporters outside Toronto city hall, after celebrating national seniors’ day alongside mayoral contenders.

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That left the impression the Liberal government might take its cue from whoever wins the election.

Later in the day, however, a statement was released on behalf of Steven Del Duca, the Minister of Transportation.

“We received a strong mandate on June 12th from the people of Ontario to implement our transit and transportation infrastructure plan,” he said. “That plan includes a subway to Scarborough. We are moving forward with our partners on building the Scarborough Subway.”

Of the three main mayoral candidates, John Tory and Doug Ford have pledged to build the Scarborough subway. Olivia Chow has said she wants to cancel the project and build light rail instead.

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