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If you are a mayor of an Ontario municipality, and the ONLY WAY you can see to governing that municipality is by asking the premier to take away the basic Human Rights of your poorest constituents, then you are a shit mayor who should resign in total shame.
Like the mayors of THESE cities:
Barrie
Brampton
Pickering
Brantford
Chatem-Kent
Clarington
Oakville
Oshawa
Sudbury
Windsor
Pickering
St Catherines
Cambridge
Email Contact info for mayors of these cities:
Windsor: mayoro@citywindsor.ca
Chatem-Kent: ckmayor@chatham-kent.ca
Oakville: mayor@oakville.ca
Sudbury: mayor@greatersudbury.ca
StCatharines: mayor@stcatharines.ca
All of the mayors of the other cities can be contacted in a field on the city's website.
I am receiving some responses from some mayors after contacting them last week and calling upon them to resign.
Though they are articulate, I am thus far not impressed with their "rationalizations" and will be picking apart their "reasoning" when I respond back to them, in the next few days.
So far, every response is a heartfelt reply saying something like "I dont wanna do this but I am going to anyways." And a bunch of weak rationalizations that are so classist and tone-deaf that I don't think that these mayors even KNOW what ignorant and elitist pricks they sound like.
So far, no mayor has had anything less pathetic to offer.
They should all resign.
...giving my full attention to trying to diplomatically communicate with these elitst and tone-deaf people whom are mayors today has been exhausting.
They are all so unimpressive and .... wrong....
And that's just ONE THING that is taking up some intellectual and emotional bandwith today...
The other is wondering if my neighbouring nation are gonna kick fascists to the curb this week or not.
This far, I have had 10 responses from 15 mayors re my concerns about the #notwithstandingclause being used AGAINST the unhoused people of Ontario.
EIGHT of those responses were form-letter bullshit, unworthy of response but got some anyways.
ONLY the present mayor of St Catherines and the mayor of Barrie responded with anything truly deep or personal and their rationalizations and reasons were weak enough that I STILL am encouraging them to resign, based upon those responses.
It's not good.
@Rural_Canadian
All that uproar about the feds invoking the Emergencies Act during the Convoy protests, and then these assholes turn around and ask Ford to suspend the constitutional rights of people genuinely struggling to survive. Fuck Doug Ford and fuck these mayors
Of _course_ #ChathamKent is on this list. I grew up in Chatham. I escaped Chatham. Dad still lives there but I rarely go to visit. Such a travesty of municipal government, it's just one terrible decision after another.
So many south and central #Ontario small-towns have managed to revitalize their cores. Chatham is a shitshow. Half empty buildings, the mall is 1/3 empty and another 1/3 is filled with municipal offices because they have to rationalize the space.
@Rural_Canadian Chatham Ontario is a textbook example of what happens when all your smart kids go off to post-secondary and realize what a backwater home is and they never. come. back. So the only people left in charge are the morons who couldn't hack it anywhere else.
Sad. The town itself and _most_ of its citizens are nice. So much promise. The Wheels could have been Great Wolf Lodge, but no, let's add another casino. And buy a railway to Thamesville. And a Theatre.
morons
@tezoatlipoca
I escaped Barrie (lol, and all of southern ontario) just before it exploded in to a satellite suburb of Toronto.
@tezoatlipoca
..just before Barrie totally gentrified the entire waterfront area of Kempenfelt Bay.
@tezoatlipoca
before gentrification, many homeless found places to live along the southern shore of the Bay between dowtown barrie and Minet's point, beside the old railway yard that is gone now.
@Rural_Canadian Exactly! An example of what can be done is London, Ontario.
@rjpayne
The HUBS?
It does sound like a good start.
I spent my public school years in London, and part of high school.
The homeless folks I knew way back then all lived in private "camps" (homes) they built in the privacy of the Thames River Valley that winds through the Forest City.
I imagine much has changed since then. Back then the ravines along the Thames had some footpaths but were not very populated or well-used, as I understand they are today.
@rjpayne
It might shock Londoners to know that a lot of people lived under the city, in the old storm drains that were no longer being used. The city locked access to them up in the 1990s.
When you could access the storm drains, there were very old (brick) tunnels that were above the new ones that remained dry. People brought mattresses, tables, food.. there was even a picture hanging on a wall in one of those rooms I was in, in the 1980s... homes, beneath the streets of London Ontario.
@Rural_Canadian I've already written to the mayors' offices in four of those cities in which I have family, so I'm not just some rando writing in.
The only reason the notwithstanding clause needs to be employed is if there is nowhere else for the people in the encampment to go - which means that asking Ford to invoke it is very much "Just get them out of our sight."
Monstrous.
@Rural_Canadian Add #Guelph to that list sadly.
@GuelphOnTwoWheels
I wonder if all of these mayors are servicing ford regularly, or if they are just ignorant and incompetent at their duties. Either way, these mayors are shit Canadians.
I will be encouraging this mayors resignation also.
@Rural_Canadian Could also be populists who will do whatever will get them elected. Suburban boomers are very politically active and loud.
@GuelphOnTwoWheels
I am interested in your take on this particular mayor, if you have any thoughts on that, being as you are living there.
Is the mayor liked? etc.