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Decentralized Democracy

Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
December 7, 2022 09:00AM
  • Dec/7/22 9:10:00 a.m.
  • Re: Bill 39 

I was wondering—I enjoyed the speech from the member. It’s always interesting to hear the sort of pretzels the members of the opposition sometimes twist themselves into on issues. On one hand, we want to intensify and the government puts forward a plan that allows communities like mine, that don’t live on the subway line but that want to access areas of the greenbelt that are fully serviced by major transportation corridors—so on the one hand, the opposition don’t want us to intensify, but in communities like mine, where we’re looking at fully serviced areas right on transportation corridors, they don’t want that either.

What do the members of the opposition want?

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  • Dec/7/22 10:00:00 a.m.
  • Re: Bill 39 

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, and yet that’s what the members opposite keep wanting us to do. The member for University–Rosedale just said that we should set targets for housing in every area of the city, which we did. When we did this, we said that they should be at every subway stop across the city so we could make better use of our transit and our transit hubs and create sustainable communities, which you would think they’d want. But what did the councillors in the city of Toronto do? They passed a resolution to say, “Yes, we agree to targets at subway stops, just not in my ward.”

So what do you think we should do with city councillors who are not even trying to make things work for housing in this city, not even trying to reach targets which they say they agree with? It’s nothing short of operating a fiefdom, in my opinion.

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