amalgamation

Guests: Robert Benzie, Queen’s Park bureau chief, and Noor Javed, staff reporter covering the 905

The Ontario government is breaking up Peel Region to make Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon stand-alone municipalities in 2025. The move has had mixed responses but two things are clear: there will be plenty of haggling over resources like shared infrastructure and the “divorce” will change the political landscape in the province.

This episode was produced by Brian Bradley, Paulo Marques and Raju Mudhar.

Audio Sources: CPAC

Brian interviews former “Tiny perfect Mayor” of Toronto, David Crombie. David was a very popular Mayor of Toronto for three terms, elected as the last center right MP from downtown Toronto, served as a Cabinet Minister, ran for PC leadership and headed numerous waterfront oriented organizations in Toronto. His views on the development of our waterfront are visionary and his thoughts on the current dispute between moderates and extremists in the Conservative Party are sobering. We discuss his political life, Toronto’s waterfront, affordable housing, amalgamation and that his Progressive Conservative party is dead and gone and that he thinks a smaller only right wing conservative is bad for conservatives and Canada.