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Cross-posted to Spacing Votes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I sometimes watch City Council meetings on Rogers. Today I turned it on and found councillors debating whether to buy a landfill near London, Ontario. Here’s info from CBC.ca’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Toronto Mayor David Miller announced Tuesday that the city plans to buy a landfill site near London, Ont., in a move to keep the city’s trash troubles from piling up.<\/p>\n

“This purchase is critical for the future of the city,” Miller told reporters at city hall. “It allows us the opportunity to control our own future and \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to provide security to the people of Toronto over the next decade.”<\/p>\n

No details were immediately available on how much the city expects to pay for the 130-hectare Green Lane Landfill, located north of Highway 401 and southwest of London.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

City councillors must vote on the deal before it is set to close on Wednesday. After that, city staff would negotiate to finalize the details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few hours later I was at City Hall and walked in as Council voted on the matter. It passed overwhelmingly.<\/p>\n

What this probably does is take the “garbage issue” right our of the election. By buying the landfill, any politician can now declare that the City now has a colution to its rubbish woes. There will be some public outrage that Council decided to vote on this without calling an emergency meeting of the Works Committee in order for residents to make public deputations. And they might have a good point.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, City staff were directed by Council to find solutions to the problem (which is\/was the desire of most constituents, councillors will tell you). If the public found out that Council lost the opportunity to buy a landfill that will meet all of the city’s trash needs because it missed a deal-closing deadline in order to hear deputations, voters could be outraged.<\/p>\n

This story will develop over the next few days and I’m very interested to see how it is played out. I’d also love to hear your thoughts.<\/p>\n

photo from Rutgers University<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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