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We, the undersigned electors of the City of Toronto ask City Council to pass a by-law redividing the City of Toronto into wards, in accordance with s. 129 of the City of Toronto Act, SO 2006, c 11, Sched A. We further ask that such wards be based on the new boundaries for the federal electoral districts located in Toronto proposed by the 2012 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario in its Report in either its current form or as amended after receiving objections from the House of Commons.

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Competition Bureau
Complaint Against City of Toronto
Plastic Bag Fee
June 1, 2012

Competition Bureau
50 Victoria Street
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0C9

RE: City of Toronto Plastic Bag Fee By-law

Please consider this a complaint with the Competition Bureau against the City of Toronto over its shopping bag fee by-law, an effort in support of a similar complaint lunched by the Toronto Taxpayers Coalition.

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Whereas subways provide a far lesser overall cost;

Whereas subways help fight gridlock;

Whereas subways have a lifetime far in excess of at-grade light rail transit;

Whereas transit planning decisions can have a long range impact;

Whereas our municipal politicians are elected and have expressed their view on transit expansion;

Whereas members of provincial parliament are also elected by the people of Toronto;

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Whereas the City of Toronto urgently needs to address it’s $774 million budgetary pressures for 2012 as a result of years of overspending, and;

Whereas funding this shortfall with property taxes would cause a 34.1% tax hike for property owners and an ensuing 10% rent increase for tenants, and;

Whereas City Councillors and the Mayor’s office have already reduced their budgets by a significant amounts, thus setting a corporate-wide example, and;

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Whereas the Fair Wage Policy distorts the labour market by increasing labour costs and reducing competition;

Whereas eliminating the Fair Wage Policy will allow Toronto taxpayers to save tens of millions of dollars per year on contracted services;

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Whereas in the 2010 municipal election, four of the five main mayoral candidates endorsed privatizing garbage in one way or another;

Whereas a C.D. Howe Institute study released in September 2010 found Toronto could save $49 million annually by contracting out garbage collection;

Whereas the city’s current unionized workers would be able to compete for tendered contracts;

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