BREAKING: Doug Ford’s ‘strong-mayor’ law gives sweeping powers to mayors of Toronto and Ottawa.
On Wednesday, Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark tabled the bill — called the, Building Homes Act — and it will be in effect for the new municipal council terms that begin Nov. 15.
Clark said the reforms are “part of the government’s plan to build more homes,” empowering the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa to expedite construction. It has not yet been determined whether posts like the head of the Toronto Transit Commission would be at the mayor’s purview. The Tory legislation is part of a continuum started in 2006 when then-Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty passed the City of Toronto Act giving the provincial capital greater autonomy over its affairs, including increased taxing authority.
The premier, a former city councillor whose late brother, Rob Ford, was Toronto mayor from 2010 until 2014, has long championed a change in civic governance.
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