Dozens of local governments and individual mayors have rejected the strong-mayor powers or asked the province to repeal the legislation entirely.
Every year, Newmarket Mayor John Taylor gets the same letter from Premier Doug Ford’s housing minister, he says.
The letter offers Taylor strong-mayor powers, a package of unprecedented authorities introduced by Ford’s government that confers unilateral control over key municipal functions.
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