{"id":2123,"date":"2007-07-24T17:14:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T21:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2007-07-24T17:14:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T21:14:32","slug":"mcguinty-to-toronto-use-your-taxing-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/24\/mcguinty-to-toronto-use-your-taxing-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"McGuinty to Toronto: use your taxing powers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Premier Dalton McGuinty spoke out today<\/a> about Toronto City Council’s decision to defer implementing new taxes until after the provincial election on Otcober 10. From the Star:<\/p>\n

McGuinty, whose government gave the Toronto additional taxing powers so it could correct its fiscal woes, lashed out at the 23 councillors who voted to defer the planned tax increases until after the provincial election.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don’t myself think it’s particularly helpful to defer some of the difficult decisions that the city of Toronto must take,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the premier said, castigating councillors for lobbying for additional powers for the city then not using them.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I would invite them to ask themselves why they sought that new authority in the first instance. Was it not with a view to acting on that authority? And I’m convinced that upon reflection councillors will want to make some difficult decisions that go along with their responsibilities,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It’s authority, by the way, that no other municipality has. Take advantage of these new opportunities that we’ve created for you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Emphasizing that the Liberal government has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153done what we can to this point in time,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d McGuinty noted a municipal-provincial task force on downloading will report early next year and there are no plans to expedite the report.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We’re \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 sitting down with the city of Toronto and all our municipal partners at a provincial-municipal table in order to determine what more we might do together to further increase the strength of our municipal partners,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We think we can do more but we want to do that through our table.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

McGuinty was careful to stress his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153very good, positive, constructive working relationship with Mayor Miller\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and made it clear his criticism was directed at councillors opposed to the tax hikes.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know that the mayor has made a sincere effort to exercise some of that new power, but he’s having some difficulty following through on that through no fault of his own,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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