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I think you missed my jab there. You're right he was never elected the mayor of Toronto, but as the Premier of Ontario, he has meddled in what would be Toronto municipal jurisdiction more than any premier before Mike Harris amalgamated Toronto. The joke in local politics has been "He's the worst mayor of Toronto ever" when he does stuff like this.
They can, but will they? Olivia Chow has been abscent from this discussion since it started. And as someone who actually cycles to her job, she has stonewalled CycleTO. She's going out of her way to not present herself as a cycling mayor for some reason.
He just has to legislate it away. There is no risk for him. And at worst, taxpayers will pay for it.
Stonewalled? cycleTO is rightly focusing on the provincial govt and they understand that DoFo is using this as a demonstration of the municipal powers he can yoink at any time, and they know Chow is pushing back against that. I don't know where you're getting your facts.
....................................................... To anyone reading, the petition to the Provincial Government that CycleTo put together is here.
The premier is in practice the head of government of every municipality. Mayors have very little power. For one thing, they are just the face of council and have no more power than any other member of the municipal board. But more relevantly, municipalities and their councils only have advisory power. The province can disband a council, merge it into another one, or override any decision they make with their own decision instead.