and his cabinet prepared to meet municipal officials for days of detailed, local discussions.
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference is being held in London from Aug. 20 to 23, with local financial headaches and housing targets top of mind. Officials from towns and cities will have the opportunity to lobby, cajole and grill cabinet ministers on their priorities during the event.
For a few days, the decision-makers at council tables around Ontario — along with both opposition and government figures fromHousing is set to be a key priority for both provincial and municipal figures during the conference. The Ford government is in the midst of an aggressive drive to build 1.5 million homes by 2031, assigning targets to cities to hit that goal. A decision in 2022 to swap land out of the Greenbelt was also made under the umbrella of new housing.Speaking as the AMO conference kicked off at an event organized by Ontario’s Big City Mayors, Burlington mayor Marianne Meed Ward said the aim of discussions over the next few days would be collaboration.
“Only by coming together are we able to find solutions together because no one level of government is responsible for how we got here, and no one level of government will be able to get us out,” Meed Ward, who also chairs the Big City Mayors, said.
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