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RSS FeedsLive: Legislature sitting all night to speed passage of controversial Toronto council bill
(The Star Movies)

 
 

17 september 2018 06:22:29

 
Live: Legislature sitting all night to speed passage of controversial Toronto council bill
(The Star Movies)
 


MPPs are pulling an all-nighter thanks to Premier Doug Ford’s frantic efforts to cut Toronto city council down to size in time for next month’s municipal election.Thwarted by the courts and stymied by legislative procedural wrangling, Ford took the extraordinary step of convening a House sitting beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday.Scores of Legislative Assembly employees were called in on overtime to ensure the building is fully staffed for the rare overnight session.It is being held in order to allow for the requisite six-and-a-half hours of debate for the second reading of Bill 31, the Efficient Local Government Act, which cuts Toronto council to 25 members from 47.That’s a reintroduction of Bill 5, the Better Local Government Act, struck down as unconstitutional by Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba.Read more:Will there be 25 or 47 wards? Toronto city clerk at the centre of electoral stormOpinion | Martin Regg Cohn: Never mind the charter, Doug Ford has diminished our democratic normsAs Toronto waits for Bill 31, MPPs will take time off for a plowing match. Here’s what you need to know — starting with the basicsIn an unprecedented move, Ford will invoke the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to override Belobaba’s decision.NDP MPP Catherine Fife said Ontarians should get used to such drama and turmoil at Queen’s Park.“We’re here discussing the new culture of politics in Ontario, the Ford culture, which involves dismantling our democracy with the introduction of the notwithstanding clause,” Fife (Waterloo) told the legislature during a 46-minute Saturday session.MPPs did not sit Sunday, because the fledgling government was unable to formally request that in time.Government House Leader Todd Smith is hopeful second reading of the bill can be finished by Monday morning and that MPPs can still break Tuesday for the International Plowing Match rural expo in Chatham-Kent.Th ...


 
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