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Ontario is removing Bloor, Young and University bike lanes. (globalnews.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by tracer_ca@lemmy.ca to c/ontario@lemmy.ca

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/31516123

It's happening, the worst mayor Toronto has ever had is removing three major recently completed bike lanes at tax payer expense. That's right, Ontario tax payers are footing the bill for Ford to meddle in Toronto municipal infrastructure. This is of course to distract us from failing healthcare and education while appealing to his mostly car centric base.

There is a protest happening Wed. 23rd of October, please come out if you can. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/rally-ride-for-road-safety-tickets-1045417761667

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[–] undercrust@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Since when does the Premier of Ontario get to decide what a municipal government does?

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Since that's how it works. The province has full control over cities.

However we haven't had such a massive idiot trying to virtue signal like this as premier before.

[–] undercrust@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Huh, interesting. I just looked it up to get more info, and this is kind of a bum deal that municipalities are "given" power by the province, so they just have to eat shit on getting it right or wrong, and then can potentially be overridden by a zealot like Ford anyways. Awful...

(from https://www.amo.on.ca/about-us/municipal-101)

Municipal Government

The powers of municipal governments are determined by the provincial government. Municipal governments in Ontario are responsible for providing many of the services within their local boundaries that you rely on daily such as:

Airports
Ambulance
Animal Control and By-law Enforcement
Arts and Culture
Child Care
Economic Development
Fire Services
Garbage Collection and Recycling
Electric Utilities
Library Services
Long Term Care and Senior Housing
Maintenance of Local Road Network
Parks and Recreation
Public Transit
Planning New Community Developments and Enhancing Existing Neighbourhoods
Police Services
Property Assessment
Provincial Offences Administration
Public Health
Side Walks
Snow Removal
Social Services
Social Housing
Storm Sewers
Tax Collection
Water and Sewage

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Always municipalities only have the power they the province grants them.