PEEL REGION – CUPE Ontario has criticized the Ford Conservatives for interfering in municipalities’ business through the recently introduced Peel Transition Implementation Act. The bill downloads some services currently handled by Peel Region to the municipalities of Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon, while doing nothing – still – to meet residents’ housing and other needs.
“Premier Doug Ford and his Conservative MPPs are currently elected in all 12 ridings in the Region of Peel, and they have still failed to build affordable homes for people in Brampton, Mississauga, and Caledon,” said CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn.
“They have the power and the resources, and they’ve had six years. But the Conservatives haven’t gotten the job started, never mind ‘done.’”
Hahn charged the Ford Conservatives with being “abject failures” at dealing with the current housing crisis but still eager to railroad municipalities to make life easier for big developers.
“It can’t be lost on anyone what is going on here – and why planning is being targeted first by the Conservatives. This isn’t about strengthening municipalities; it’s about interfering in them to benefit the Conservatives’ big corporate donors,” he said.
CUPE Ontario urged residents of Peel to join the union in holding the Ford government to account for its failure to deliver on provincial responsibilities like health care, housing and education, all while creating havoc and disruption in Ontario towns and cities.
Krista Laing, chair of CUPE Ontario’s Ontario Municipal Workers, said: ““People in Peel and every other municipality in Ontario would be better off if the provincial government properly funded the services we need in our communities, rather than constantly raining down chaos and disruption from Queen’s Park.”
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For more information: Mary Unan, CUPE Communications 647-390-9839 | [email protected]
