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.
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.
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.
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!
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?