Ontario Premier Doug Ford is telling the mayor of Mississauga and different municipal leaders who’ve voiced opposition to new housing laws to “get on board” and “stop whining.”
At an unrelated announcement in neighbouring Brampton, Ont., right this moment, Ford launched into unprompted criticism of Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie’s opposition to points of his housing plan.
Crombie and different mayors throughout the province have stated that Ontario’s new regulation that eliminates and freezes some developer charges to municipalities will pressure them to lift property taxes as a way to pay for infrastructure that helps new housing.
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Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark has stated in response that he’ll launch a third-party audit of the funds of choose municipalities to find out if the regulation will certainly trigger a shortfall and if that’s the case, the province will make these communities “whole.”
Ford says right this moment that there are just a few mayors who “don’t want to play in the sandbox,” together with Crombie, including that he doesn’t know what her drawback is.
He says Mississauga is sitting on thousands and thousands of {dollars} in improvement cost reserves.
Crombie’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to request for remark.
