A tool Doug Ford’s government created to give mayors the power to build housing faster is being used in some Ontario municipalities to make unilateral staffing decisions that have little to do with the construction of new homes and more to do with the consolidation of power at a local level, critics say.
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It was previously only available to Toronto and Ottawa.
Caledon Mayor Annette Groves used her strong mayor powers to appoint a new CAO with no consultation with councillors, who were also denied access to the details of the CAO’s new contract.