The province is also responding to a new report that is raising questions about the government's ability to hold winter contractors to account.
Since 2010, the province has issued more than $50 million in fines when contractors fail to keep the roads safe.
Our sister station CTV reports the province has only collected 14 million.
When pressed on how it's possible winter contractors are getting out of paying tens of millions of dollars in fines for not doing their jobs properly, Ontario's Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca explains it's all in the fine print.
"The contracts that exist provide multiple steps of appeals for contractors that may be facing a penalty because of some issue that may be facing a penalty because of some issue with respect to non-performance.
In other words, an endless amount of back and forth...back and forth...
Del Duca says the companies turned down a request for binding arbitration; opting to stick with what's in the contract and keep fighting the fines.
"The contractors are engaged in using the contract, as it was written," he defends. "The contract does have the opportunity for fines to be levied. It also does provide, and this is not unusual, similar things occur in all kinds of contacts in society, it does provide with the other partner in the contract to say 'we think you need more information before we can confirm what the right amount is. For example, we're going to provide you with that information' and there's a bit of contractual opportunity for back and forth. That's not unusual. I want to stress that."