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RSS FeedsMayor John Tory, council pressured to declare an emergency and open new shelter beds
(The Star Environment)

 
 

21 november 2017 00:34:17

 
Mayor John Tory, council pressured to declare an emergency and open new shelter beds
(The Star Environment)
 


Mayor John Tory and council are being pressed to address what advocates and councillors are calling a growing crisis in the city’s emergency shelter system as temperatures drop.On Monday, the community development and recreation committee approved several motions aimed at increasing shelter capacity as frontline workers urged politicians to do more and councillors warned of pending deaths this winter.A successful motion from Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam asked Tory to declare an emergency in the shelter system and move immediately to open new beds. It passed 4-1. Councillor Michael Ford was the only councillor against.Council has the final say next month on whether to make that and other requests of the mayor and city staff.“We don’t have the luxury to be patient anymore,” Wong-Tam told the committee. “We are in an emergency situation, which means that we have to respond accordingly.”“People are going to die this winter. I think that we can logically assume that’s going to happen.”Wong-Tam’s motion also asked that Tory work with city staff to find funding to create additional temporary shelter space and to request the federal government open the Fort York and Moss Park armouries for shelter.Declaring an emergency would give Tory the power to act without council approval, according to city rules.A statement from Tory’s office did not address if he would invoke emergency powers but said the mayor “continues to believe that we all must do more to make sure our vulnerable residents have a safe and secure place to live.”It noted “city staff have been clear and consistent in stating that use of the armouries would not be a safe or adequate option for shelter space” and that the demand on the shelter system has been temporarily increased because refugee families have struggled to find housing.Council has asked the other levels of government to help pay for refugee resettlement and e ...


 
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