This time the picketers at Queen’s Park should be led by provincial mayors and councillors standing against Housing Bill 23.
, omnibus legislation that takes a chainsaw through everything from municipal finances to protections for renters, green building standards, affordable housing guidelines, heritage review, parkland dedication and other policies that have little to do with the constraints on housing supply that the bill is meant to address. The threat to wetlands that protect all Ontarians from flooding and biodiversity decline is unprecedented, and dangerous.
The provincial government overplayed its hand with Bill 23, raising the ire of a remarkably wide range of organizations: farmer associations, alliances of homelessness advocates, neighbourhood associations, urban planners, and all the environmental groups you can think of.
A line has been crossed, not only for informed citizens but perhaps also for mayors and councils of Ontario’s large and medium-sized cities. They have just had their legs cut out from under them. Bill 23 slashes as much as $26 million a year in development charges the City of Ottawa sorely needs in order to put necessary infrastructure in place. To address the gap, taxes will have to go far beyond the 2.
Only a few weeks ago, we saw the provincial government back down from its planned use of the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Constitution, aimed at busting unions for legal strike action. Maybe this time the picketers at Queen’s Park will be led by the mayors and councillors of Ontario, bused in by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario from across the province, standing against Bill 23 with the people that elected them. Or perhaps the threat of a mass resignation by newly elected officials would get the attention of the premier.
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