And incompetent liberal governments to drive our dollar down to $0.73! This is Canada’s hidden tariff on everything - brought to you by Mark Carney - elbows up indeed.
Why is the landlord involved in this? Is the landlord responsible for the tenant’s car payments too?One solution to ease the so called housing crisis is to reduce the risk of being a landlord - something the city can easily do on many fronts.
Another useless tax grab from a council that is out of ideas. How will this be controlled? The city is going to employ empty home investigators? How I use my house is none of the city’s business.
Why have I never seen data that show speeds under 50 km/hr present a danger to the public? None of the proposed measures will stop motorists running red left turn signals and stop signs . How many injuries will result from traffic cushions (obstructions) and barriers? Again no data. Council and many of my fellow Guelphites base their decisions on emotion not logic. The money spent on slowing down traffic would be better spent on improving intersection sight lines, teaching school children bike safety, and training Guelph transit drivers what to do at a stop sign (it’s not a “slow down” sign!)
3.2 million dollars was taken out of our community and produced no benefit: there was no discernible change in the accident rate.In return we received just over $300,00. Some people can’t even manage a proper cash grab.
Guthrie was often the lone voice on a council composed mainly of fuzzy thinking leftists. We have only ourselves to blame for the dismal condition of Guelph we see all around us (see the many comments above and below)Thank you for your service Mr. Guthrie; I will likely miss you even more once we see your successor
I wish our council would focus on running the city efficiently instead of inventing problems and up with new tax grabs to solve them. If an owner has an unused $500,000 property, the city wants to charge $40,000 on top of the ever increasing property tax he already pays. Property taxes are regressive and do not consider the owners ability to pay (unlike income tax).Also, an exemption process would now place an owner at the mercy of city bureaucrats - the newly formed Empty House Inspection Department-who are more interested in preserving a revenue stream rather than giving a property owner a break. Enough of this nonsense council!
Why are we wasting our time reusing beer bottles (it's not recycling people! ) ? All other glass currently goes into blue bins and gets recycled, why not alcohol bottles? . As for beer cans, they get melted whether they go back to the beer store or in you recycling bin.
Get rid of the ward system and go back to councillors at large. Why does a councillor that received less than 1400 votes in a very small region of Guelph (Michele Richardson for example) have equal input on a decision that affects the whole city?