Ottawa\u0027s new mayor, Mark Sutcliffe, said he won\u0027t use this proposed authority.
With new legislation unveiled Wednesday, Housing Minister Steve Clark announced additional “strong mayor” powers for the province’s two largest cities. If passed, it would allow the mayors of Ottawa and Toronto to propose new and amend existing municipal bylaws related to designated provincial priorities — such as housing supply — and get those passed as long as they had more than one-third of the votes around the council table.
Toronto Mayor John Tory has embraced the strong mayor powers already available to him and announced plans last month to use them to create a new division at city hall focused on speeding up housing development. These match provincial priorities put forward for existing strong-mayor powers, which include a mayoral veto over bylaws that conflict with the priorities, as well as the authority to hire and fire senior city staff and reorganize municipal departments.
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