Pick a fighter: Toronto’s next mayor needs to do battle with Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau via torontostar
It’s easy to feel cynical about Toronto’s mayoral race. Starting with former premier Kathleen Wynne’s move in 2017 to deny Toronto the right to put road tolls on city-owned highways and continuing with Premier Doug Ford’s mad scientist tinkering with the genetic makeup of Toronto council, the last few years have been a real demonstration that our municipal government — including the mayor — doesn’t have a lot of real independent power.
offered plans for Ontario Place that aren’t exactly aligned with the scheme dreamed up by Ford’s governmentBoth want to scrap the publicly funded 2,700-space parking structure in the provincial plan. Bailão wants to move the Ontario Science Centre to the site. Matlow wants more park space. It always has been. It probably always will be. It certainly will be for whoever wins the June 26 byelection.
But just like with the Ontario Place issue, the city has a good case to push for change based on data and evidence. During COVID-19, the share of the city’s operating budget funded by provincial and federal government subsidies grew from about 18 per cent pre-pandemic to 29 per cent in 2021. It’s now falling again — the share is 26 per cent, and it will be even lower if various optimistic assumptions of provincial and federal support don’t come through by the end of the year.
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