Opinion: I’m hearing everyday from Torontonians who feel like that promise is slipping away. Residents in every neighbourhood, from Scarborough to North York to Etobicoke, feel they’re paying more and getting less from their city, writes anabailaoTO
My parents were newcomers to Canada in 1991. After a few years of hard work as a construction worker and a seamstress, they were able to buy a home and put food on the table for their daughters. This was the promise of opportunity that led us to call Toronto home.
Construction workers, nurses, teachers, and young families alike are looking outside of our city limits to find an affordable place to call home. Seniors, such as 90-year-old Peggy, who told me at a town hall that she helped build Willowdale, but is now worried about how she will stay in her home with taxes increasing and health-care bills forcing her to make impossible choices on a fixed income.
As we stand at this crossroads, we need political will and we desperately need a mayor who knows what they’re doing on Day One. I have a better plan. It starts with pragmatic solutions, like having the province take back responsibility for the DVP and the Gardiner, so we can use the more than $200 million we spend on them each year to make the TTC safe, reliable, clean and convenient again, bringing riders back to transit, thereby solving a significant portion of our city’s budget problem.
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