Highway protest on 402 to border slated for Friday

SARNIA, Ont. — A farmers’ protest is expected to slow down Hwy. 402 leading to the Blue Water bridge in Sarnia, Ont.-Port Huron, Mich. this Friday.

A group calling themselves the Grass Roots Farm Organization, led by a Dover farmer named Tim Chinnick, announced that a tractor and pick-up convoy will travel about six km west on Hwy. 402 to Sarnia and then back again, according to Canadian Press.

The same group recently organized a traffic slowdown on Hwy. 40 between Chatham and Wallaceburg.

Chinnick told CP that the grain and oilseed farmers want provincial and federal cash to compete with what they say are heavily-subsidized U.S. farmers.

Randy Hillier, president of the Ontario Landowners Association, which organized a handful of farmers’ protests along Hwy. 401 over the last couple years, told TodaysTrucking.com his group is not associated with these protests.

— with files from CP