A PROJECT TO EMPOWER
​TORONTO AND
LARGE ONTARIO CITIES

Trudeau endorses provincial right to enact
Single-Province Constitutional Amendments

Trudeau's position that Ottawa must approve a province's demand for constitutional changes that affect only them removes a theoretical political barrier to constitutionally protected City Charters for large Ontario cities.     MORE

Toronto Star • May 10 2021

Rhodes Scholar, activist and Jane Jacobs prize winner Kofi Hope says the current constitutional arrangements between cities and provinces are "a bit ridiculous"and says "If we care about our future prosperity and health, we must modernize how we run our cities. A charter city seems like a promising way to do it."
It took Toronto six years of talks with the province just to get permission to hire traffic wardens. 
Six years. Traffic wardens. Why?

National Observer • April 23, 2021

Cities are Canada’s best shot
at a green recovery

Former Vancouver City Councillor and UBC Prof Andrea Reimer writes that cities could make a much bigger contribution to national and global problems like climate change if they weren't so shackled by their provinces.
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The goal of Charter City Toronto is the adoption of a constitutionally protected City Charter for Toronto and other large Ontario municipalities who want one.

We're a group of independent residents of Toronto who believe cities are the most important level of government in our confederation, and that they should be accorded the respect, authority, resources and protection necessary for them to fulfill their responsibilities to their citizens, their neighbours, the province, the country and the world.
 
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