Toronto's mayor will soon have the power to do pretty much anything Doug Ford likes Toronto TOpoli
The proposed changes to mayoral powers will take effect on Nov. 15 of this year, if all goes as planned for Ford and friends, which means that we also don't know exactly who Ontario's new"strong mayors" will be.
Doug Ford’s “Strong Mayor” legislation doesn’t create housing or strengthen Toronto. It weakens our local democracy, diminishes councillors’ ability to hold a mayor to account & with a veto for provincial objectives, in the wrong hands the mayor becomes a servant of Queen’s Park.Both Toronto and Ottawa are holding municipal elections at the end of October. If incumbents John Tory and Jim Watson secure another term, they'll be the province's first mayors with U.S.-style veto powers.
It's a concept many online aren't entirely comfortable with for Ontario, chiefly because of how much more power this move would seemingly give the province.wrote one local"In other words: Doug Ford gets to tell the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa what to do," wrote another. "How is this a 'strong mayor'?"
Ford’s Strong Mayor proposal has nothing to do with housing as he himself already admitted. It’s about this Premier giving mayors the power to help him bypass councils, override local bylaws and stifle consultation.
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