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RSS FeedsEdward Keenan: Ford government´s regional review could be a good thing - or a very bad thing
(The Star Theatre)

 
 

16 january 2019 15:56:35

 
Edward Keenan: Ford government´s regional review could be a good thing - or a very bad thing
(The Star Theatre)
 


Beware provincial Tories looking to help. If you’re a municipality, it’s a hard-learned lesson based on experience. And one that was top of mind on Tuesday when Doug Ford’s government announced the prospect of reshuffling of the regional governance system in the GTA and across the province.Maybe the system could use some tweaking. Or more than tweaking. For instance, perhaps Mississauga, the sixth largest city in Canada and third largest in the province, has outgrown its place as subservient to the Peel Regional government, as Mayor Bonnie Crombie often argues.Perhaps there could be some standardization of how regional governments and regional chairs are elected. Perhaps, though it appears to be outside the purview of this review, the whole Greater Toronto and Hamilton area — even the greater Golden Horseshoe — could use some more formal regional co-ordination of files like planning transit and housing (as was first proposed almost 25 years ago by a task force led by Anne Golden).Perhaps.But then you have experience.Read more:Ontario mayors greet regional reform news with excitement, dreadMississauga and Brampton mayors respond to provincial review of regional governmentsRegional amalgamation creates ‘turmoil’ and isn’t efficient, Durham politicians sayIt’s been two decades since Mike Harris’ Progressive Conservative government forced the amalgamation of the six municipalities that made up Metropolitan Toronto into the city we know today — alongside companion amalgamations of school boards, and a shuffling of which level of government pays for and delivers a host of essential services. It was a disaster. It was unpopular and locally opposed at the time, and it’s little exaggeration to say digging out from under the rubble these actions created has been a main preoccupation of the city’s government ever since. The promised cost savings never materialized (instead the city government bec ...


 
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