Eric MacFadden, Barrie’s deputy fire chief and alternate community engagement management coordinator, said that while the city isn’t directly coordinating the evacuation, it’s been looped into the plans led by the province and ISN Maskwa, an Indigenous-led emergency support organization.
“I thought it was an incredible meeting. We all walked out of the room united,” he said, praising Prime Minister Carney for bringing premiers together. “Now the prime minister’s gonna go to work, get the legislation passed.”
"If the federal government came and waived the [HST], the federal side, then we'd look at the provincial side as well," Ford said, answering a question by QP Briefing.
With growing discontent among some voters over property taxes and congestion, Bradford’s team sees an opportunity to build early momentum.
The Canadian Telecommunications Association was registered this past week in-house by Robert Ghiz, the group's president and CEO.
“As complicated as it is to execute, it’s a really simple idea,” Volpe told QP Briefing in a recent interview. “We’ve proven we’re the best place in the world to build electrified vehicles. So why not build our own?”
BILD is now calling on the federal government to expand its GST relief to all new home purchasers. But what can the provincial government do?
The government says that if MPP salaries had been increased by inflation each year since 2009 when they were frozen, this would have resulted in a 43 per cent increase by 2025, which is higher than the proposed 35 per cent hike.
