By Staff
October 25th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
Mayor Meed Ward has announced that her Speaker Series is back.
Next month’s theme is “Growth Is Coming”: What’s In It For You?
Burlington is expected to grow to 265,000 people by 2051—how will we manage this growth while maintaining our quality of life and ensuring no one is left behind?
Join the Mayor and industry experts for an insightful panel discussion and Q&A on how we can meet the challenges of growth and build a better future for everyone.
WHEN: November 12th, 2024
DOORS & TRADESHOW: 6 PM
PANEL: 7 PM
LOCATION: The Burlington Performing Arts Centre
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and engage.
Register here: burlingtonpac.ca/events/mayors-speaker-series/
“Growth is coming” It should say What’s in it for ME,ME,
ME. MMW. I’m the boss of Burlington. Get used to it.
There is nothing in it for current Burlington citizens other than higher property taxes from this out-of-control council.
I really wish that the Mayor would get real in the scope of the issues, and what she says about them, in her representations of the citizens of the City, in the here and now.
She says Burlington is expected to grow a lot in the next 27 years, but this is just a rhetoric of fiction, fabricated out of mostly the air, and self-selected asserrtions. There is no determinant model of a 27 year future, not even a 6 year future in Ontario.
By this I mean, the Mayor’s Speaker presentation will fabricate a story about making growth great for all, but she ignores the economic reality of present day Ontario as reported in another Gazette story the same week. Does she not have anyone, on her now bloating City staff ,to give her briefings about current real-economiques?
This is all based on factual data, not fiction, so readers need to go and read it closely -“13,400 manufacturing jobs lost since Doug Ford’s” – October 25/24.
“Ontario had 13,400 fewer manufacturing jobs in September 2024 than June 2018, when Doug Ford’s Ontario PCs took power with a “guarantee” to bring back the 300,000 manufacturing jobs lost during the Liberal era.”
“You shouldn’t have to wait weeks to see a doctor. You shouldn’t have to be stuck in traffic for hours every single night,” Ford told Ontarians in 2018. “This province has lost over 300,000 manufacturing jobs, and we will get them back. I guarantee you.”
“A promise to create jobs through building 12,500 new housing units per month has fallen flat. Only 206,000 new housing units have been started since June 2018, 144,000 less than the 350,000 promised 28 months ago, CMHC data shows.”
“Ontario’s ongoing economic malaise has changed the province from contributor to confederation to a have-not province that will receive $576 million in equalization payments in 2024-25.”
Mr. Ford is the man that the Mayor has tied herself to, regardless of the impacts of her false narrative on Burlington citizens. In my own experience I am really tired of being treated like I am stupid. She consistently employs her powers to get the results that she wants. I sometimes thinks she believes her own lies.
Oh, you can write a population or economic forecast one down, but the future is always features punctuated change – like the Fed finally cutting down on immigration, because of its impacts on housing, inflation, finance, health care, education, taxes, and so on.
As a source of solid information, or even truth, the Mayor is an inherently unreliable character in any of her narratives, and particularly in her gatherings of so-called “experts”, to try and convince us all, with their self so-called, “unique panel insights”, that no doubt we really can “manage” this growth while maintaining our quality of life and ensuring no one is left behind?” I think this is self-serving rubbish.
You can build whatever you want, but what is being built these days, i.e. one and 2 bedroom units are not what people want who will or are wanting to raise families!
Just because you build it, doesn’t mean buyers want what you are building!!
Time to rename our city to “ Gridlock Ont” to reflect the lived experience on more and more days. Growth and Gridlock go hand in hand so just imagine not being able to get anywhere in the city between 07:30 and 21:00. The new name would discourage commuters from cutting through our side streets only to go nowhere fast.
This is going to destroy the “town I loved so well”for my kids and grandkids who were born and raised here.
If we don’t build housing, where will your kids and grandkids live? Or should we just build 2 houses for your family and the rest be damned.
Since the Liberals came to power our population has increased by 7 million people without counting the temporary residents estimated at close to 3 million, the majority moving to Ontario. Without building hous8ng we will need to build more parks because they need to live somewhere
Bob seems you are validating the main root cause of the housing shortage that will be with us for years, even decades to come. Yet our unstable Prime Minister still can’t come to self-realization that he is problem for both the country and the Liberal party. A 20% reduction in regular immigration is “hardly” slashing as all the media outlets seem to describe it. Too little too late unless newcomers arrive with hammers and stethoscopes.
Wholeheartedly agree with you Ted.
The issue is always that @$&# flows downhill so the actions of the government at the top of the pyramid (Trudeau) filter down and we get upset with the local government at the bottom who can’t do anything but react to the policies they can’t change. Heck our local MP can’t stop the policies and has gone from supporting the most open and honest government to now playing the negative card and deflecting on every question ever asked.