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RSS FeedsDoug Ford hires Hazel McCallion for $150,000 a year `special adviser´ post
(The Star Travel)

 
 

19 january 2019 01:59:58

 
Doug Ford hires Hazel McCallion for $150,000 a year `special adviser´ post
(The Star Travel)
 


Former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion has been hired as Premier Doug Ford’s “special adviser” on municipal affairs for up to $150,000 a year.The 97-year-old McCallion, mayor from 1978 until 2014, endorsed Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in last June’s election after supporting the Liberals for their previous four victorious campaigns.“The Liberals have admitted everything hasn’t been perfect in Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario. Well, that’s one way of putting it,” she said last spring. “Doug has committed to fixing Ontario’s finances.”At the time, Wynne noted she and McCallion, who had been close political allies for years, said they broke because “she has been asking me for two years to open up the Greenbelt and I’ve said a firm no.” “I can see why she would find Doug Ford an attractive candidate,” the then-Liberal premier said.Ford, whose government is examining the province’s growth plan and looking at regional government in 82 municipalities across Ontario, said Friday that McCallion, a proponent of Mississauga breaking from Peel Region, will also advise Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark “on a range of municipal issues.”“Housing is one of our government’s top priorities and I’m looking forward to having Hazel McCallion support our work on the housing supply action plan,” said Clark.“This advice, combined with the input we’re receiving through the government’s housing supply consultation, will help ensure that the people of Ontario have access to the right kind of housing in the right place.”Long influential at Queen’s Park, McCallion has backed the winner in nearly every provincial election since she was elected Mississauga mayor more than 40 years ago.Her decision to abandon Tory premier Ernie Eves in 2003 and back Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals played a part in the then govern ...


 
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