Problems in Toronto

From Toronto

It is not all a bed of roses living in Toronto. Here are some of our problems:

• Political underrepresentation federally and provincially. Your vote, like the votes of all city dwellers, is worth less than a vote cast in small communities.

• Fragmented Electorate. Toronto is the most diverse city to have ever existed. The wonderful effects need no repeating but it means that Toronto does not have a collective voice, unlike just about every other part of Canada. This allows a divide and conquer strategy to be used against us.

• Civic government lacks power to act in most areas.

• Chronic over-taxation/underfunding of Toronto citizens to the tune of $4 billion/year by the federal and provincial governments. The rest of Canada and Ontario happily receive this money but actually believe their taxes go to support Toronto.

• Air Pollution.

• Sprawl.

• Transportation system overload.

• Looming electricity shortages

• Heat Island effect combined with global warming induced climate change.

• Unrestrained development of over-sized towers anywhere and everywhere in town.

• Separated central waterfront area from the Downtown core dissected by railway and highway infrastructure.

• Horrendous rental housing conditions, as bad or worse than many American slums, because the municipal and provincial governments have refused to address the issue.

• There is also a lack of affordable Toronto apartments for rent in this city.