Toronto City Council Executive Committee, 17 Apr 2018

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Executive Committee, meeting 33, April 17, 2018 - Part 2 of 2
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Well, members of the executive committee committee room one for quorum.

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Time for us to resume and we have quorum present and we had. We had listened to at.

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We had, of course, our last definite that came, but we had also had just listened.

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To our first speaker from counsel, not a member of the committee and so I'll ask.

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Because I had no list of other speakers at that moment who wanted to speak? Who.

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Are first starting with those visiting with us councillor, fletcher or anybody.

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Else on smart track: okay, so councillor fletcher yeah! Do you just okay you're on.

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Thank you very much. This is a long and complicated and exciting project, and I.

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Have in word, 30 we're very happy to host two stations, one at the unilever site.

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Which, I think everybody knows, is a future jobs growth site with upwards of.

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50,000 jobs to be located there be a big driver for toronto's economy, they're.

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Calling it the second downtown we'll also have a relief line station, so it.

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Really is transit that we're we're thinking ahead. Much like people comment.

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On how we thought ahead, when we put that fantastic rail under the viaduct, which.

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Was really thinking ahead, so the subway could cross the river. This is really.

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Thinking ahead for this job zone- and I want to commend planning and economic.

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Development for really being clear and helping everybody understand the.

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Importance of job zones in the city of toronto for the future of the economy.

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And for growth, and just for everybody's future job and the sons and daughters of.

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Those who live there now I want to particularly note that one thing that I.

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Have asked for previously and I'm sorry, I didn't hear all the questions this.

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Morning but transit is something where we really believe very strongly in.

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Growth that they're also growth nodes. You know I'm taking out the unilever.

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Site because it is distinct and for employment uses.

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It's designated as part of an employment area, but when I look at gerard carla and.

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Perhaps other smart track stations for others. There is a real need to look at.

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What will be built in the area, let's forecast as to the growth, the.

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Residential growth and build in from day one from day one affordable housing into.

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The mix so that we're not just looking at how high can you go, how many units.

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Can you have, but how many of those will be affordable, housing and they'll be.

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Baked into your ability, your ability to build, we don't do enough of that, and I.

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Think this is our moment to say any permissions outside of. What's existing.

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Will depend on your ability to deliver affordable housing and, if I can, there.

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Are other areas where we have closed stations, both ttc and go stations and.

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Perhaps we should be thinking ahead in planning studies as such as at main and.

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Danforth, which is another node, how many affordable units are we baking.

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Into that- and I do have my kinki in helsinki- nail polish on today- so I'm I.

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Am streaming councillor mcconnell in this, because if she were here, that's.

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Exactly what she would say we welcome this new transit transit is missing in.

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The city we're trying to fast track with smart track the relief line, our lrt.

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Lines: eglinton crosstown, we're also trying to build in community benefit.

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Agreements to everything that we do so that's while we're building it and.

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What the future will be as far as affordable housing, but I will just say.

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Quickly that I am a bit confused and I have to sort this out before council.

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Because my impression was that metro links and the provincial government that.

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Are very much on side with smart track and there are messages that are coming.

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Out of staffers up at queen's park for the government that don't appear to.

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Understand smart track. Somehow I am being considered in charge of all of the.

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Track work that will be the electrification that will be all of the.

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Construction and I'm very concerned about that that there are staffers.

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Queens park saying one is paula: fletcher going to do about the sound and.

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Vibration concerns about the track work, so I don't understand that I would hope.

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That staff can look into that. Let me know, and that somehow this this is now.

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Coming on anybody, who's upset about having electrification and having an.

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Expanded corridor somehow blaming the city, so it is quite surprising to me.

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That those who are sitting working directly for the government are sending.

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Out messages of this kind, and I would like to have that clarified mr. mayor.

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Between now and council, by whichever staff can because, if they're not clear,.

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What they're doing I can't really trust everything. That's in the report that.

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Says this is what metrolinx position is and what this is, the provincial.

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Governments position so I'd like to have that clarified before I vote on this at.

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Council, because I won't support it if it's not really clear. Thank you. Thank.

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You thank you councillor fletcher. We have council cast early next. Thank.

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You, mr. mayor, this ended a long journey as my.

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Colleague, council fasciae was saying back in 2012. We did convene a session.

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Here at city hall to talk about at that time, we didn't call a smart track. We.

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Call it you train and yes, and we had councilor visual councillor jim jones,.

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Come down here as well, and we are talking about complete transit, not just.

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Smart track, but smart track forms a backbone for high-speed transit in whole.

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Region and basically back in 20 2006 right after I got elected, we are looking.

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At frances city and the seven lines that was proposed of lrc's- and I say it's.

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That's great that we're building transit, but what I saw was basically for local.

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Transit for longer distances, it saved no time so we needed, and also we had.

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Capacity problems on dtc, especially along a young line, and also right at.

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Blue and young interchange was became a really traffic jam. So at that time I.

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Attended metrolinx consultation about building out the ghost system and at.

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That time I had, we identified that the best way of having the north-south.

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Corridor to relieve the congestion on the young and unity lines is to have.

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Other loss of transit corridors and I had advocated strongly to move forward.

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The improvements on the goal line the stovall, as well as to all the way to.

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Vocational and had been advocating for it ever since.

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And now I'm happy to see this coming to fruition and seeing a lot more been been.

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Done to implement complete transit networks in toronto and in the greater.

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Toronto area, because although we have boundaries like steeles avenue to.

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Delineate between toronto and the rio 5, we are all part of the same region. They.

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Need good transit for our people, that's not for the downtown owners.

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Not for the you know, suburban suburban dwellers, but for everyone to get us.

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Around my next actually project would be to look for an east-west corridor too. So.

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That people can travel east-west without having go to union station so that it.

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Would be ideal to form a ring high-speed transit corridor that will serve all of.

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The gte area that help people get around so I I am expecting everyone of us to.

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Vote for us here in the council, so thank you very much for your time and please.

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Please move this forward because this needs to be done. Thank you.

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Thank you councillor lee any other members of council, though, who are not on.

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The committee who wanted to speak okay, seeing none then we could move to the.

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Members of the committee and I have first councillor palacio. Thank you mr.

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Mayor, I wholeheartedly support the recommendations before us and, and I.

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Would like to take this opportunity to thank city staff and for the amazing.

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Work that they have done throughout the years to come to this point, I think this.

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Is good news, great news for everyone, and thank you mr. mayor, also for taking the.

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Leadership of this one and for your vision, it is good news overall, in terms.

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Of that's for transit users in terms of different choices, the ability of.

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Mobility that people will have there were all recommendations allowed that.

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The smart truck stations to proceed to the next stage work and that's extremely.

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Important and also seeking authority to proceed with the procurement cause.

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Procurement and the construction parts of all the stations locally. Mr. mayor.

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And members of the committee, this is great news for the local community that.

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I had the privilege of representing it the new smart trucks.

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As well as with a sank, lair, mass transportation and plan was implemented.

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I think that's going to create a tremendous opportunity for the community.

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Not only in terms of growth, employment, but also in terms of revitalization, for.

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The whole north- I can only see in a few years from now having a major.

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Transportation happen that the way it is right now is an eyesore to the community.

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But with the vision that's before us in terms of the recommendations that will.

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Definitely change takes the exclusive right away, which was supposed to be the.

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Prototype for the city of toronto moving forward and the concept was fantastic.

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But when we see from point a to point b and we look at the guns, rod at the end.

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The exclusive right away being lead to nowhere and that's where they go transit.

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Station has no truck go. Transit station makes so much sense, because that creates.

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The level of connectivity to the north or south everywhere and and that's a new.

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Smart investment and that's what people that's why people love what they see.

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There- and they are, there- is so much support forest for it and for those of.

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Us that we had to inch bumper-to-bumper because of the congestion in that part.

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Of town, especially with all the down pouring of traffic from the 400 series,.

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Those are the real economic losses that is creating a tremendous impact there.

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That I'm hoping that it will change and all these years of inaction, indecision.

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And political interference and interference and inertia more than.

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Anything else it has come to an end. So from that perspective is williams. I just.

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Want to touch bases on the western trail path. That's an amazing concept. Moving.

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To the south, but also to the north, and I think that that's what is going to.

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Create the bicycle net network all through other connects, and he makes.

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Sense in terms of connecting all throughout one of the things that I.

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Course would like to do to see is that, through the municipal, comprehensive.

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Review and that's done through at the same time that we start with the.

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Framework of the five year or the five year initiative- rubino, because that's.

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One way of looking for opportunities in terms of growth, employment, housing and.

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And all of that, because that's what makes a community healthy and strong so.

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From that perspective, mr. mayor, this is great news and- and I will be supporting.

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The recommendations, thank you. Thank you, counterplot co-counselor thompson. Thank.

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You very much mr. mayor, I have a motion assess the staff to put the motion on.

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The screen the motion is that so.

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There's the motion, which is to ask that that report be brought back to executive.

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Committee in the first quarter of 2019, requesting metrolinx consideration for.

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The additional at grade on the stovall barry go corridor which would address.

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Some of the issues that we are impacted by in our community I had asked earlier.

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About the criteria that's been utilized in terms of other areas where it seems.

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Other areas where less traffic and let's have let's challenging with respect to.

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The great separation and and my area is still not being considered at this time.

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So I'd like to have that continued discussion and I don't want us to be.

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Paying the lion's share of this, because I understand how the formulation works.

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The motion is reflected in such a way that it would flip it around. Instead of.

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Us being 85 percent would be 15% versus metrolinx being 85 percent. I too want to.

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Lend my voice in support of the smart track initiative when I was a university.

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Student in montreal be able to take the train sort of the.

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Regional train to go out to the west island and so on, where I could take the.

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Metro, the metro in montreal and sort of make the connection and what-have-you.

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It was always a surprise to me that we didn't have that kind of essential.

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Connection, we are very late in the game, so to speak, so we've lost those.

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Opportunities- and so we are now saying we need to get to it- I understand it's.

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Not a perfect system and no system really is I understand that people who.

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Came in this morning from from scarborough and some in my ward, but I.

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Have to tell you most of the people that were here this morning, I never saw them.

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At any of the meetings that we had on transit in my ward, I've been dealing with this or quite some time, and so it's really important.

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To understand that there's been discussions going samara. I wonder if you.

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Could ask the audience basically to basically not interrupt my conversation.

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Please, and so it's really important for us to understand their challenges and.

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It's not something that we take lightly. We want to look at it. There was a.

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Comment about the you know, the midland and and and at lawrence the proposal for.

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The station and where the bus will come in, I actually have gone to the other.

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West end of the city lawrence avenue at avenue, road sorta.

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That at allen, road, that's a similar concept where, basically, you get off the.

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Bus basically lay by you go down into the subway, it seems to have worked for.

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Many many years and we did ask the team who came to.

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Speak to me about the proposal: how could we, if we could actually do the at grade.

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And so on, they made a number of suggestion. They said we couldn't do it.

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But this was going to be an efficient way to get people into the system. It.

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Also would reduce the delay of the bus traveling on lawrence avenue, which I.

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Think that most people would want to be able to get to their specific.

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Destination as quickly as possible and so on, we are also going to see.

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Additional development in the area that is now being proposed without that smart.

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Track stop in that area those additional 4,000 units that are going to come on.

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Stream would be deprived of the ability to be able to have transit in this.

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Particular area, I draw your attention to the fact that the ttc was actually.

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Proposing to close down the middle in and ellesmere srt stop because there was.

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Not enough traffic for that, but I note that people came in here today and said.

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Well, you know we need all of these locations, they were considering to remove a little bit. Additionally, the the idea around the srt.

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That it can continue, because people have heard from bus drivers and others, and so.

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On not the technical experts but the bus drivers and that's not who I go to for.

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My information about whether or not the system is reliable and, in fact can.

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Continue as I was dealing with this system many years ago, when we would.

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Actually see residents at scarborough stop in the middle of the hydrofoil and.

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Couldn't go anywhere because the system actually wasn't working. So a lot has.

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Changed and, and so the leadership that you bring to the table mr. mayor with.

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Respect to smart train, I think it's appropriate. It is very.

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Effective, yes, we are going to have to invest in transit in the city of toronto,.

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Because there's no other way, if we want it, we actually have to pay- and I understand the issue about you know perhaps allowing transit to be as.

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Cost effective as possible efforts being made, the province has actually.

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Introduced legislation to the $3.00 charge an additional effort to be made.

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In terms of contribution to ttc, to ensure that we keep fare as low as.

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Possible this is a step in the right direction and for those reasons, I'm.

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Supporting this thanks a lot councillor thompson on the button, I have a clock.

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And five minutes I mean thank you very much. You know I had had two other.

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Speakers as yet, but who else would wish to speak honestly? Okay, go ahead.

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Counselor, thank you. Mara, torrey. I'm gonna be supporting the the.

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Recommendations in this report, I think that one of the things that I look at as.

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A city councilor from these scarborough one of the things that we always talk.

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About, or have been looking about, that is how we can break down the the regional.

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Borders, in particular between durham and scarborough, and how we can get more.

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People onto public transit like go transit and the ttc and off our roads.

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Because one of the biggest complaints that we often hear about- and I hear for my residence is the traffic that comes in from durham and the amount of.

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It affects them, it increases gridlock, it has a huge impact on our economy. So I.

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Think having an integrated transportation system across the city.

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With smart track, rer ttc go transit. It achieves that saying that I recognize as.

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Well, that public transit is very expensive having a regional.

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Transportation system is very complicated when you have problem all.

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Three levels of government are involved in this we're looking at funding from.

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The city, the province and some from the federal government, one of the concerns.

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That that leads me to is about tax incremental financing and that we're.

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Looking at the sheriff from the city of almost three hundred million dollars in.

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Tax incremental financing and I've I've read a lot of about a merit or e2. First.

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Project, that's really using tax incremental financing in canada. It's.

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It's been used in other places in new york city. They had a huge project in.

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Manhattan that they had expectations with what they were gonna raise from tip.

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And didn't and didn't, and it ended up the city had to backstop that and.

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Fulfill those tip obligations that they were expecting through increased.

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Development in manhattan, the fare integration is, is another huge concern. I.

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Have is somebody that regularly uses both the ttc and metrolinx there's a lot.

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Of talk about what fair integration is and what it means, my wife and I have we.

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Have three kids: I've talked with staff from metrolinx and go transit about what.

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They see the funding model would be, and there doesn't seem to be any concrete.

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Model there's been no agreements about fair transfer ability between ttc and.

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And if you're using smart track or what's called rer, I think that's.

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Something that really needs to be worked out with. I was a little disappointed.

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This morning, when I asked questions to staff about a report that metrolinx.

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Issued last week where they talked about scheduling and what they saw is the.

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Proper scheduling for for their trains staff made a reference to it that they.

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Thought maybe it was, it was a trial model. The ceo of metrolink sylvester.

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Recently put this report forward at a metrolinx board and wholeheartedly.

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Endorse didn't talked about it, and my understanding is that currently go.

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Transit is using that scheduling as their modeling for trains as their.

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Electrifying on the like short lines and implementing other trains throughout.

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Their system, so that has me a little concerned as well. It also ties into the.

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Residents that they were here this morning from the scarborough action, scrubber transit action and their talk about scheduling on smart track. That.

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Currently they can get on a train at the lawrence avenue, lrt every four minutes.

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And how that they be impacted if they had to go over and use smart track.

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Station at lawrence, so I think those are some of the concerns. I hope that they're.

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Gonna be addressed in a wholehearted manner in future reports on this, but I.

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Do have to say that as we're looking at moving people in this gta from point a.

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To point b, I think that smart track is gonna play a key component to that, but I.

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Do have these concerns that I would like to see addressed in the future, as we.

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Move forward on this project, thank you. Thank you can see who else wishes to.

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Speak because I'll say a word or two. If oh customary viola, please going to have.

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A show-and-tell we've never seen you do one of these before.

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Councillor holidays, I undoubtedly been tutoring you. I need to share with you.

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The best kept secret in toronto, which is actually the area that I have the.

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Privilege of representing, if you didn't figure, that out to this moment, which is.

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Actually, this area over here so in this area over here in a very short distance.

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We are going to have three smart track stations. We're gonna have a go station.

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We're gonna have a connection of trails that is the west toronto rail path. The.

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Guideway the green line that we're working on so in ten minutes you'll be.

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Able to get downtown in ten minutes, you'll be able to get to the airport in.

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Ten minutes you'll be able to get to york university all this because of what.

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We're talking about in here, so it is for the this part of town, that a few years.

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Ago, when we were talking about expanding transit in reality, we weren't getting.

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Much when we talked about the downtown relief line, a lot of people weren't.

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Aware that the downtown relief line that we talked about is in the east end and.

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We in the west end have questioned that many many times so when we saw the.

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Opportunity to have smart track to have these stations to actually bring jobs to.

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Our community, like we're doing right now, I have four buildings of employment.

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Space being built in my community right now, this is the kind of communities that.

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We want to have in our city where people work where people live, where people play.

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That's what we're doing in the west end with some of this project. So it's a.

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Great opportunity for this fort for the city, I'm being very local, specifically.

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Talking about the community that I represent and how excited we are about.

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About the problem, what the project brings, obviously we know that there are.

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Certain things that we need to continue to be vigilant and we've always been a.

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Strong voice in some of these issues, one of them the real estate deals that is.

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Going on with metro links, we need to make sure that we're not only talking.

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About the rail, we need to take advantage of the full potential of what these.

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Projects brings to our community so exploring making sure that.

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Connectivities exists, making sure that these trails or our being built or at.

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Least protected for in the future is of the essence, and for that is really.

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Important that we have the local communities at the table as well, because they know at best we've canceller palácio and I were in a.

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Community, where we're talking about the western oral path going north- and it was.

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The community took that port for it it was the community that really said to.

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The staff you haven't looked at this in the way that it should be looked at so.

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It is really important that, as we're moving forward the local councillors in.

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The local community are at the community fairs. This is great. We have a lot of.

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Stops in here, but there's gonna be that little distance that bus right that.

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People are gonna have to take to their homes and the intention the way that.

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This is gonna work. The best is if this becomes a true option for everybody, so.

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That they can choose if they can get on the subway or can get on one of these stations if you can to get on the bus or if they can get. You know on a.

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Streetcar and for that we need to continue the work to have the fair.

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Integration completely done, we've come a long way, although I mean councillor.

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Ansley was telling me that he used to pay six dollars to get one way on the.

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Train ride he's now down to three dollars. We've come a long way to make.

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This a benefit, these rail lines that we've seen in our communities that we've.

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Experienced this communities to make good use for it in here so and at last.

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The planning around these stations, we have to lead this change. We have to.

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Ensure that the planning is done properly, we need to ain't change that to.

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Ensure that the investment that we're doing in transit is going to be captured.

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And ensuring that, as we're planning as we as we're working these, these zones.

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That we protect for some affordability in the housing that we put make sure.

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That jobs are being created and we make sure that we have complete communities.

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As a result of our investment, that is why I will support the recommendations.

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Thanks senator barlow, okay, councillor mcmahon, thank you very much and I think.

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This is a good news story which we often don't don't talk about in this place in.

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The city and we need to- and it's good news, because we have a three dollar fare.

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So this was years a few years back. We thought we'd never get here, and here we.

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Are with $3 to get on get on the train new jobs 20 in the city 32 in metrolinx.

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That's always good news: when we have new jobs, capped financing, it's capping our.

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Contribution so we're not on the hook more good news. Metrolinx is in charge of.

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The operation and maintenance, more good news at six to ten minute fare service.

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Or servicing people want to get places and they want to get there quickly and.

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Now we're at stage cape is we're at stage gate number five. We are well down.

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The we are finally getting there. People want to see action. This plan is about action happy to support it. Thank you. Councillor.

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Cran others to speak. Okay, well I'll, just reset the clock and make a few remarks.

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If I might, I want to thank all the members and all the decadents for their.

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Comments and iii continue to believe, as I did when this idea was first serviced.

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With me and let's remember, this idea had been discussed better use of go train.

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Tracks for years kind of on an on and off basis, but it moved seriously forward.

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When the idea was presented to me- and I sought this office on the basis that I.

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Thought it could be transformational because it was going to be something.

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That was going to be faster than other transit. Alternatives was going to use.

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Existing infrastructure allowed us to partner and allowed us to provide better.

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Service both to job hubs outside of the gta, where many people work, but also more.

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Importantly, to move people inside toronto inside the 401 6, where we have a.

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Big challenge: it was always predicated on the notion that the province was going to do an expansion to the go train system which they chose to call regional, express rail and it we've ended up and again, there's.

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Great controversy made about this great issue made about the fact that there are.

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Six stations, in fact, if you add in the go train stations that are going to form.

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Part of the network: it's a much more extensive network than that, but the bottom line is: we will have six new transit stations inside the city of.

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Toronto, which, and if you think about the great celebration that ensued just a.

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Couple of months ago, when we opened a few new transit stations as part of a.

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Subway that had been under construction for many many years. This is a very.

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Significant step forward to have six new transit stations in the city of toronto.

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That we didn't before I haven't quite frankly, if you look at the relative cost of that that we're going to undertake as some of the questions and comments, this.

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Morning a focused on the fact we're moving any contribution at all make no.

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Mistake if we hadn't made a contribution of these stations would not be built.

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They would not be built, they would have gone ahead with our er and our er would.

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Have moved people as it has done historically from 905 through four one.

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Six downtown and there would have been no thought given in particular to the.

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Notion of adding capacity inside for one six to move people, which is a crucial.

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Priority that we have believe as a city and as a city council.

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And only because we partnered with the province of ontario are these six.

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Stations being built and we're contributing, I think, appropriately to the cost of those stations being built and part of that deal was the service.

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Plan and again I've heard it said many many times that that somehow we didn't.

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Do better than what was the original concept, and it was only a concept when.

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The election campaign was on to deliver 15-minute service, but the fact is that.

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Through the bargain that included our contribution, our investment in the.

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Stations, the six stations that are going to be built in toronto. We are delivering.

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A much better level of service to people than was originally discussed at 15.

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Minutes was the original concept it's now going to be between six and ten.

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Minutes you heard some of the numbers being discussed this morning. You know.

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There was discussion as well over the course of this debate today about how.

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Much the federal government was contributing and the fact is they are contributing five hundred eighty five million dollars and the amount that was.

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Allocated to new transit in toronto, when this administration took office was.

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Precisely zero there been commitments had been made for the new york.

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University spadina subway, that was under construction, but in terms of new transit projects, it was actually to be fair. Prime minister, stephen harper, who took.

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The first step to establish a national transit fund and allocated money for.

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Smart track, and that was then followed by the additional efforts undertaken by.

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Prime minister, trudeau, to expand that amount of money to the point where today.

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From a situation where we had zero the day, this administration took office, new.

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Transit projects we have today between the two governments, nine billion dollars.

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For new transit for the network transit plan that we've approved as a council on.

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The fair integration again, it's a subject- that's been discussed for years.

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For years, through successive administrations, at the end, successive.

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City council's and with successive provincial governments and nothing had.

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Been done about it, nothing whatsoever, so we've had two significant steps and.

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We're not all the way there, but two significant steps: the first being the.

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Dollar, fifty subsidy I'll call it for people moving back and forth between the.

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Two systems and the second being the very important announcement that was.

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Made in the budget of a three dollar err: 40, tc or go or inside four one. Six.

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And that was a huge underpinning of the success of the smart track. Project was.

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That you had to have a fair that was competitive, so people would have a true.

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Choice and that choice is gonna lead to significant numbers of people. I believe.

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Choosing to use the go system before and during smart track and get them. I think.

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Some of them off the yonge street and bloor street young bluer that whole.

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Situation that we know is so dire right now and then finally I'll just deal.

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Briefly, with the financing to say, we've talked about the 585 million. We can talk.

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About development charges a bit later in this meeting, but on the tif you heard.

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You know, mr. our chief and acting chief financial officer. Mr. frank, speak.

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Earlier today about the fact they made very conservative, I think we're I'm not.

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Misquoting him very conservative assumptions about the additional.

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Development and tax revenue that will accrue because of smart track and they.

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Took a very conservative piece of that 15 percent of that money to contribute.

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To this, and so to me, this is a project that makes as much sense today as it.

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Ever did, and it makes a lot of sense, I think it always did and that I think the.

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Fact that it is changed, I've never seen a big project that I've worked on. In my.

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Entire business or professional career that didn't change significantly from.

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The first day it was conceived to the last day on which it was executed. That's.

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The way it goes and and the bottom line is we're gonna have transit, people are.

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Going to be riding on, I believe the number is 33 million rides when this is.

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Open and I think that's going to make a very significant contribution to the well-being of the city and getting people out of their cars and reducing.

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Congestion, so I hope that members will support this and I'm looking forward to.

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The debate at city council as well, so is there anybody else just before we move.

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To dealing with the amendments and the matter, councillor palacio, thank you. Mr.

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Mayor, I would like to ask for the record about the party boat all right and we're.

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Going to deal first think we only have one amendment that we have a motion move.

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By councillor thompson so I'll put that up- and I guess would you like a recorded.

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Vote on that, as well or just on the item- jokes, a we, the amendment can be done in.

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A voice vote, counselor plazo says so. We have councillor thompson's motion here.

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On great separations, all those in favor opposed kerry and then we'll now have a.

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Recorded vote. The main item has a minute all those in.

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Favor of the item- councillor ainsley councillor bulow, councillor, burnside,.

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Councillor crawford councillor, digiorgio councillor, mcmahon, deputy merriman and.

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Wang mara, tory councillor, palacio and councillor thompson, the item passes.

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Unanimously, thank you very much okay, so we had said.

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We would move to time the would buy an item for the first item after lunch and.

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As soon as smart trek was finished and that's where we are right now, smart crack is finished for today that item and we can move on to the expanded.

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Gaming at woodbine, racetrack, oh and just before we do that calculate. I believe.

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You had a motion, data and item of new business, which we can deal with so.

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There's a motion to add an item that would become. I don't have a number on it.

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Here but it's become maybe a x 1933 19 and it's solid waste, 2018 capital budget.

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In 2019 to 2027 capital plan adjustments and it's out on the pink paper, maybe.

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People want to just have a look at it. They have it already very quick. Mr.

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Mayor we had to council the budget meeting this thursday due to quorum and.

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This has to get through before council, so we wanted to make sure that got.

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Through it, there's no no impact financially all right, but that's the.

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Reason, maybe we will do is let you have a read of this just while we're dealing.

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With woodbine and then we can call the question on this a little later on so.

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That brings us to woodbine and we have some deputations. We have about 13 and.

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Will revert to the three minutes for deputation and three minutes for.

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Questioning of decadence and we'll call them here unless otherwise requested in.

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The order that they appear on the sheet so the first three just so people can be.

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Ready rosemarie powell from toronto community benefits network john.

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Cartwright from toronto region, new york, toronto, new york region, labor, council,.

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And joanne braun from unite here: local 79, so miss powell. If I bake brighton.

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Oh, it says 79 on here: 79 is the city union 75 is the you know. You hear sorry.

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About that, okay, so rosemarie powell, please, as miss.

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Powell, here.

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Good afternoon welcome and you have three minutes alright, so as a resident.

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Of rexdale, having lived in both councillor.

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Vincent croissant ease wards and michael ford's wards. I'm really pleased to see.

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The local councillors here today, michael ford, has been very gracious with us as.

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The community inviting us in and talking about our issues and the toronto.

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Community benefits network is actually heartened by the city that the city.

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Staff has considered our proposal for a comprehensive community benefits.

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Agreement for the woodbine casino. We are also pleased that the city further.

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Consulted the community to create a report that reflects many of the.

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Priorities that the community has been advocating for for the last decade.

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Including hard targets for a local and equity, hiring and targets for local.

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Procurement cc bn is a community labor coalition of over 80 members, which.

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Initiated the first successful community benefits agreement in the city for the.

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Eglinton crosstown lrt transit project, dozens of community groups and labor.

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Unions and hundreds of local residents have indicated their support for tc bn.

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To be led to be the to lead the community voice on this issue, and I have.

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Some packages here that I could share with councillors today, so while this.

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Report recommends some key elements that will be critical for the success of the.

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Cba and future agreements of this kind between the city and its developers.

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There are some key issues remaining to be addressed there, forty c bn and as.

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Community partners will keep working to improve this agreement and we need our.

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Elected representatives to stand with the community, it is essential that the.

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Community remain at the heart of all the decisions council makes about this.

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Proposal for this reason, let's take a minute to review what we know about this.

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Commune of rexdale and the broader community in which it exists, the city of toronto rexdale, is a community in which every.

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Neighborhood within it is considered low income to very low income, a trend which.

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Has become more polarized over the last thirty years, there are no neighborhoods.

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In rexdale or north etobicoke considered middle high or very high income.

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According to the united way's recent report, the opportunity equation, citing.

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Income averages for 2015 the average income for residents of rexdale is very.

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Low income neighborhoods are as low as 63% below the average of the city's.

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Forty percent lower in low income neighborhoods.

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Another way to look at it is that 73% of rec sales population is considered as.

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Racialized with income in these families, significantly lower than average.

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Salaries across the general population of toronto, for both men and women,.

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Therefore, this is a casino development that the downtown of the city of toronto.

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Did not want in its backyard, and so it was sent to rexdale a community already.

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Under stress, despite knowing the vulnerability of this community I'll.

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Have to ask you to sort of get towards your conclusion, because we just passed the three minutes. Okay, so we have to get this agreement for excel right. It will.

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Be in effect for 22 years, a whole generation of young workers, parents and.

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Children from this community could benefit from good jobs and better family.

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Incomes, if we get this right or we'll miss out, if we don't that will.

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Make a big difference in the lives of our families. What we would like to see a.

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Stronger community and labor representation on the various oversight.

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Committees, tcb end and experts, explicit union and work, a representation on the.

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Employment working groups, a seat at the table for coalition members at the.

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Steering committee more frequent reporting that is accessible so that the.

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Public can be assured that targets are being met. Ma'am I'll have to ask you to.

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Conclude now, I think this is doable right now. Yeah.

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And we want to see counselor stand up for the community, hear our voice and.

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Help to strengthen this community benefits agreement, we have an.

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Opportunity now to get it right before we move forward. Thank you. Thank you very.

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Much sorry about that, but if we gave you no, I understand we have some questions.

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Which will allow you to make some more comments? Okay, sharon had a question I think. Did I see with the question? Yes, thank you very much through you. Mr.

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Mayor mr. powell, um there were a couple more points I think, on on on your list of what you'd like to see. But I'd like to like to ask.

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More specifically, within the community benefits agreement. What what.

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Improvements would you like to see in order for for, for, in your opinion, for.

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The community to shoulder the burden of hosting the facility. Thank you very much.

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For that question, but what we'd like to see is more local hiring the community.

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Had asked for sixty percent, we got twenty percent of local hiring and.

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Twenty percent of social hiring. We would like to see that forty percent at the.

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Minimum is local hiring. In fact, when we look at full-time targets, that's been.

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Proposed by city staff, we see that forty percent has been recommended, which is.

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Great but currently the woodbine casino actually has a 55 percent employment.

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Full-Time employment outcome right now, we'd like to see it at least 55 percent.

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We would like to ensure that women are able to access the jobs and.

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Opportunities and that's by providing good, accessible childcare on-site, we.

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Would like to make sure that the tc bn and our labor partners actually have a.

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Seat at the table and that there is regular reporting and that there is.

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Accountability that the community meets regularly with the key decision-makers.

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And that this, the reporting actually gets put back into the out to the.

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Community on a quarterly basis, this is a the this notion of fifty five percent.

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Currently are considered full-time at woodbine, so you mean this that the.

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Proposal, that's in front of us is four lower than what we currently have. That's.

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Correct we currently have forty percent being profile, be proposed devices.

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Staff and we'd like to see this increase to at least 55% the on the.

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Accountability mechanism after the casino is built and whether or not they.

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Meet their targets along the way after the casino is built. Do you know if.

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There's a mechanism for the city to actually make the the casino proponent.

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Fulfilled these other obligations, is there a mechanism to to to force them to.

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Do it well, what we understand is that the community benefits agreement will be.

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Tied to the subdivision plan, and while we think this is great mechanism, we'd.

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Like to see that, because that's going to be in five years that they'll come back.

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Asking for additional planning changes, what we'd like to see is that within, if.

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On a yearly basis, or that we are actually able to have a mechanism in.

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Place that will hold you, the the operator accountable now and then on an.

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Annual basis than having to wait until the next time, they ask for an approval.

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It's safe to say that the 60 percent, local hiring the 60% full-time, the the.

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Additional services to ensure women can get involved in the workforce. The.

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Accountability: the community access: this is the price of admission to your.

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Community for the casino last last question: absolutely: this is what we this.

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Is something that the community has been asking for for many years, a court.

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Community, organizing for responsible development has been advocating for a.

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Community benefits for some time now and finally, there is an investment happening.

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In our neighborhood we have not have this level of investment in rexdale for.

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A very long time we want to ensure that we get it right and that there are jobs.

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And opportunities that are created for the residents there. Thank you very much.

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There may be another question for somebody else just to before you go as.

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Well, anybody else going once that's: okay, oh councillor, thompson! Yeah! Thank you.

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Very much thank you through you, mr. mayor.

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um I you know, your presentation is quite strong, and so I thank you for that.

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But um what about daycare? Are you asking that.

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That be provided as well as an option. Absolutely the community has met many.

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Many times and we've discussed the different elements that we would like to.

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See incorporated in a community benefits agreement and at the top of the list for.

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Residents was actually a daycare. We wanted to make sure that we provide for.

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All the residents in rexdale, especially women, who are oftentimes the the the.

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Breadwinner for families we want them to be able to go out and to have access to.

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The jobs and opportunities, but within this 24-hour operation, environment, folks.

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Need to be able to have access to daycare in the morning in the afternoon.

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At night, but it's it's done elsewhere. This is not unique. No, this is absolutely.

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Not unique right so just looking through the documentation reading through in the.

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Construction piece: it talks about reasonable efforts being made in order.

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To ensure that there is the the contractors are able to hire the the.

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Trades and so on, what is your sense of reasonable efforts? What is that to you.

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How does that sort of play to the community? Because anyone can rationalize.

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Reasonableness, what is the definition of reason list? Would you prefer to see an.

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Actual target number in place versus the concept of reasonableness so much for.

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That very important question, because equity hiring it's very hard. It's hard.

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Work and there's a process that has to be in place. I am from the employment.

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Sector myself, I know that you have to be able to prepare people. You have to do.

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Training and recruitment- and you know, look at it from an equity lens. You gotta.

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Do their wide marketing and you have to do things that are different from what.

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The company already has been doing because obviously it hasn't been working.

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So saying that you will have the you know reasonable efforts, that's not.

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Enough, we really need to put in the sims and resources necessary to actually.

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Make this happen, and so that's why we'd like to see that actually struck from.

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The community benefits agreement that is proposed at this point right now. I.

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Believe you said in your remarks: you're asking for the toronto and new york.

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Region, labor council, to be involved as part of this process to be instituted in.

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Why is it not in place now? Did you ask for it before that's more of the.

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Discussion that has been a part of our proposal from it and it has not been.

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Accepted in we're disappointed just the last three seconds, what would be the.

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Rationale and benefits in terms of expertise, and we brought to your group.

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To strengthen the ability to be able to deal with this company, we want to ensure.

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That there is a welcoming workplace when people actually get on the job and labor.

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They are the experts at this, and so when you talk about labor market you're,.

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Talking about the the the system that is within the workplace, that is going to.

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Support the workers related to their benefits and their conditions at work, so.

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You want to make sure that the people who are actually delivering on this work.

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Are actually at the table and that you can get advice and support from them and.

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Processes that they they operate or the company might not be able to know all on.

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Its own, thank you. Thank you. Thanks, counselor.

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Thompson: okay, I'm looking for other councillor bylaw councillor to georgia,.

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To question this deputed okay, councillor barlow is the deputy mayor bylaws next.

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And then councillor george, oh so going back to the reporting you said it would.

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Take five years for us to get reporting well, there are phases so for the first.

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Phase the next time that the development the operator will come back to the table.

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Asking for additional planning changes might be in the next five years and what.

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The city councilor is sorry city staff has put forward. Now. Is that the first.

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Report will actually go out in two years, so there's going to be a two-year period.

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Where the community, the public, will actually not know what's happening in.

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Terms of this community benefits agreement and we'd like to ensure that this reporting is going out on a quarterly basis. More.

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Consistent, so we could track and monitor and ensure that it's happening and and.

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And work with the applicant, wouldn't you say because it mean at the end of the in.

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Two years, if you're not meeting what we all work together towards it's kind of.

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Late, that's right, it's kind of late and we don't want any surprises and that's the way how we work correctly with metrolinx.

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And the eglinton crosstown project we're actually at the table we'll often a.

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Report we meet quarterly and as needed, we even have subcommittees that we're.

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Able to create as the need as the needs emerge and the reporting is made public.

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Through the tc bn, we communicate to our eighty plus members and to the community.

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At large and we're able, in that way to be able to address any kinds of issues.

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As they do come up great going back to the child care, so how many people are.

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Gonna be working in this facility. Well, we understand that they're gonna be.

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Thousands of people actually shion's hired and many of that those jobs are.

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Shift work we're not sure of the conditions of that work, but that is what.

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We would anticipate because it's a 24-hour operation, your child needs 24.

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Hours that's right and is this really easy transit.

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Accessible, absolutely it's not and actually accessible. Transit was one of.

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The demands that the community had put forward in our proposal- it's really bad.

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Getting around in rexdale so for a woman that needs to get to work.

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At 7 o'clock in the morning it might be really hard so to have a childcare.

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Facility on-site. That would help with that absolutely.

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It's it's part of workforce development to give the opportunity to that women.

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You need to create the conditions and the environment that she can flourish is.

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That correct, you are absolutely right, and this has been one of the number-one.

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Demands from the community to have accessible childcare that is free.

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Preferably or at the very least subsidized.

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Thank you. Thank you, cassie barlow, councillor to george, oh, thank you. Mr.

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Mayor, I just want to get some clarification on the comment that you.

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Made with respect to the community having a seat at the table, my.

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Understanding is the community benefits. Agreement is a.

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Two-Party agreement between the developer and the city, and there has.

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Been a tremendous amount of consultation in arriving at the nine social.

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Conditions that form part of the agreement, so are you suggesting that you.

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Want over and above whatever community consultation has been done to this point.

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You want continued consultation to occur. Well, we're confident that city staff has.

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Listened to us, we're really pleased with the way that you know we've been able to.

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Come in and to meet with them the city, the local councillors, have also met with.

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Us, and so we think we have another two weeks where we can actually get this.

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Right and that's all that we're asking for- and you made a comment with respect.

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To day care being made available, so my understanding has a day care. It is not.

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Currently, one of the conditions that has been agreed to.

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Unfortunately, city staff were constrained by the 21 conditions that.

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Had been imposed in 2015 by council and so the additional community benefits.

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That the community were requesting, many of them have not been incorporated into.

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This report unfortunately, and we'd like to see that improved and strengthened.

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And we'd like to have city councilors, actually take up some initiative on that.

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And to move some motions that would actually get some additional commitments.

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For the community in this agreement, thank you thanks. Counselor digiorgio.

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I had one more hand, I'm sure I saw, but maybe not I'll, for this step. You know.

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Well, thank you, then miss powell very much for all of your time and all of.

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Your answers appreciate that, and heart rate is up next from the toronto in york.

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Region, labor, council good afternoon good afternoon. Mr. mayor councillors, we're.

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Here, supporting the improving of the community benefits agreement for.

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Woodbine, the labor council represents all of the unions that are currently.

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Representing members working at the current woodbine facility and the trades.

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That will be building the new facility, so in our view this is an opportunity to.

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Have a project to provide shared prosperity for an entire generation so 22 year deal the global mail says that they expect to.

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Ten to fifteen percent return on investment annually for 22 years, so we.

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Think that there's an opportunity using your powers to determine if this is.

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Going to be a great project or we're gonna have something more like atlantic.

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City, where you have poverty on one side of the street and glittering towers on.

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The other we're involved because of our deep commitment to social justice, equity.

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On a highroad economy, with good jobs for our diverse communities, the labor.

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Council on our affiliates have a long history of workforce development through.

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Our own labor education center, which is done labor adjustment for hundreds of.

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Workplaces our trade links operation, which does pre-apprenticeship training.

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For people from diverse communities, our own construction unions are millions and.

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Millions of dollars of our own members, money and training the next generation.

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Like the carpenters and laborers and iron workers and electricians, who sent your letters supporting this, and also the hospitality workers center and local.

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75 members are here: they've built a training center modeled on the las vegas.

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Culinary center, which is incredibly important for a highroad strategy for.

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Hospitality and gaming we're a founding member of the tc bn and our experience.

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Working with cross-links and the metrolinx has been really important in.

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Informing what we believe could be strengthened in this community event of.

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Its agreement, the staff, has done a good job in taking the 21 conditions and.

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Trying to negotiate with great canadian gaming as some of the goals that.

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Identified by tc bn and for cord for the ten years before that, a of organizing.

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And rexdale, but there's actually what we have in front of us is not a significant stretch for the operator in terms of what it.

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Would do normally and so there's a number of things missing, including a.

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Living wage childcare, hard targets on construction, a labor peace agreement.

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That was supposed to be part of the original frame and monitoring.

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Enforcement, so what we are saying is needed number one is all targets needed.

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To be improved, there needs to be local and full-time targets that are higher.

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Than what has currently been recommended and moved up, at least to the minimum of.

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What the current operation is doing, we need to drop the commercial, reasonable.

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Efforts or construction, that's a loophole. You could drive a.

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A mack truck through we're doing, 10% and and that's now become the common number.

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We're working with infrastructure ontario on a number of projects as well.

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And the trades are recognizing that that's where we're going to be up there.

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Should be ongoing funding stream for the community, including childcare, and we.

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Want to make sure that the expertise that our affiliates have is at the table.

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The the labor market and workforce development table, as well as the labor.

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Movement having a role at the oversight, because, honestly, when we've worked with.

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Metrolinx and cross-links: it's the knowledge we bring to that table when we.

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Look at shortcomings, we don't point fingers, we say, let's discover solutions.

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And we have actually helped to make solutions happen. We believe that you can.

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Make this a better agreement, and it should be a better agreement by the time.

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Council finally approves it. Thank you. Thank you, john. Are there questions of.

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The deputy councillor shiner, I think you're right here quite right, calculate.

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And you'd be first, yes, my apologies for right. That was a little slow getting in.

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The hand up there, thank you very much mr. cartwright, the so the targets that.

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That you're, hoping to see are the local 2 to 60% the and the full-time to 60% is.

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That correct that's correct. Well, as we would think 60% full-time is.

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A good number because they're doing 55 doing 55 now so there there's also an.

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Issue with how far those jobs and those targets extend, are you comfortable with.

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How it's at the community benefit is written. Now we thought that those jobs.

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Are extended from beyond at the casino floor, the food and beverage, but into.

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Admin, professional yeah we actually- that was one of the areas that we had brought.

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To the to the city staff, in our experience of metrolinx, most community.

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Benefits in north america are only about construction, trades or the full-time employees. We actually have very successfully gotten opportunities for.

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Internationally trained professionals, new graduates and newcomer communities to go into engineering, technical, financial, professional admin, work.

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There and that's been a success and staff took that back and I think they've.

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Been able to add that into the into this, that's in front of us, so we're very.

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Happy to see that good, the ongoing funding stream this this notion of the.

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Community give back local community give back. I can, can you evaluate what you.

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Think we should be, including in the what the tcb n, maybe in what's included in.

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This report to if this is truly the price of admission. Well, I mean there is.

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Money, that's going to go through the provincial agreement to olg and some of.

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That's back for problem gaming. There is, there needs to be money for the kinds of.

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Thing this community- and this is not a union issues- this is what we heard from residents. They want things like an endowment funder, scholarship for young.

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People they certainly want childcare, so being identified as a huge barrier for.

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Both the residents and employees and that kind of thing typically in community benefits agreements across north america. There is a contribution.

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Back over and above taxes to an endowment fund or some form of fund that.

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Is used for those things identified by the community? We think that should be.

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Part of the cos of social license for a casino in this city. So let me ask you.

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This, given that there's only 10 to 15 million in new funding coming to the.

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City from revenue and new funding, do you think that that ongoing funding stream.

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Or that additional community benefit should come from the city's take or from.

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No, we we believe it should be over and above that's, the typical tradition or.

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The typical experience in other casino and large developments across north.

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America great, thank you very much. Ex-Con sir layton councillor wong-tam.

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Thank you very much mr. mayor. I want to just have understanding labor council.

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Has been involved with the employment and labor market advisory working group.

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Sacra, no, you have not no the it. It has not been formed yet sorry and and on.

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That there is no representation from labor or community benefits that it's.

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Proposed humber college, the y and some local agencies, but nobody from labor and.

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So, thank you very much for clarifying and do you think it would be helpful to.

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Have labor represented at that advisory working group.

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Absolutely because we, as we talked about with metrolinx our experience, we hear.

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Back from the reps and the people who are actually on the job sites telling us.

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There seems to be a problem here, or this doesn't seem, be working. We can bring.

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That up and we can find solutions and the long term for the for the ongoing.

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Operations, all of the unions that are involved in the floor now that see.

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What's actually happening in the skills that are necessary in the work, that's.

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Being done can feedback and suggest the kind of training? That's would be.

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Necessary and have those conversations with the eo agencies and toronto.

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Employment, social services and others bringing that expertise right to the.

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Table yeah. Okay. Thank you very much with respect to your comments about the the.

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Package, that's before us or the the loose outline of a package. It's it's a.

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Good start, but you're not more, not there yet, and you said that that perhaps it.

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Hasn't been stretched that the that the proponent hasn't gone far enough to meet.

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The requirements of local community expectations and needs: can you elaborate.

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On that, well I mean you're gonna put a casino in in the middle of rexdale.

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You're gonna hire some degree locally because of the demographics there. Some.

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Of those folks are going to be from communities of color, you've got to do.

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That training and we don't see over and above what might be business as usual.

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Other than tracking it that there is a big financial investment back in the.

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Community and that's what we think is important again: that's not a trade union.

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Issue, but this is because for ten years particularly unite here, 75 and others.

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Have been working with the community to find out what residents need is a very a.

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Lot of challenges in rexdale a lot of newcomers, a lot of folks who've found.

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That, when they're young people are sending out resumes they've graduated.

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From university and they and they sent a hundred resumes and don't get a single answer- that's a reality. We want to change that outcome for those young.

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People and in the report, it's not clear what.

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The oversight mechanisms are to hit any type of voluntary targets.

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What would oversight look like for you? Well, we understand that the.

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It's gonna be in a subdivision agreement, but we in order for the city to.

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Adequately see whether or not these targets are being fulfilled and are on.

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Track to be fulfilled, you need expertise at the table. You need.

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Actual reporting quarterly that's transparent, so that it can be judged by.

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The community and by others who know what is real and then that needs to.

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Ensure that, as the city is judging, whether or not this is care taking place.

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It's not you're going to have once a year full report to council, but you need.

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More often quarterly, in order for that to be on track and with respect to other.

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States agree, thank you with respect to other community benefits agreement. Is it.

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Very, is it very explicitly clear that there are targets there are? There is.

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Oversight mechanism and and and that there's a way of measuring that yeah in.

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Fact I've got with me a document from the partnership working families in the.

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States that says, common challenges of negotiate and community benefits.

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Agreements how to avoid them and the mistakes they talk about our agreements.

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That don't have hard targets that don't have actual ways of confirming that the.

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Employer is carrying out what the promises are and the other major mistake.

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Is not having the community at the table just having it kind of delivered by the.

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The local government and and the proponent, without adequate community.

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Involvement. Thank you. Thanks counselor other questions, councillor holliday.

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Deputy mayor holliday, thank you mara, torrey, I'm just over here. Serving can.

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You help me understand just to clarify you mentioned that the toronto and york.

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Region labor council is a founding member of the toronto community benefits.

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Network are you here speaking to us today as a member of the toronto.

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Community benefits network, or with with your capacity with the labor council, I'm.

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Here as president of toronto in york, region, labor, council, I am also the.

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Co-Chair of the t cdn, but I'm making the point from the labor specifics. But our.

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Experience is about partnership and the reason I ask that is, I have heard.

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Daycare childcare come up in a few different forums, including today, in a.

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Few different formats- and I want to get some clarity on if there is a singular.

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View on what the ask is, I think, in your presentation, if I heard.

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It correctly, I heard the words free childcare and you can correct me if I'm.

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Wrong on that, but I wanted to get a more detailed view on what your vision is for.

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Childcare is it something specific for the casino workers? Is it something more.

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Specific for the community, which I heard before, is it something that would be.

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Open to the community, isn't it is it something that's to be paid for by the.

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Employer, or is it simply something open and could benefit the workers? I wonder.

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If you could elaborate with a bit more detail, so I understand better so from.

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The labor council perspective, it would be a childcare that is there primarily.

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For employees of the entire operation and, of course, the operations not just.

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The casino it's the hotels and and the other facilities, as you see in vegas, so.

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It's a full full service will be for those employees, because you've got.

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People working shifts, we believe it should be free, it should be a benefit.

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That's provided to those employees and because majority those employees will be.

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From the local community, that will be a direct benefit, so that we think is a.

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Reasonable request that actually enables the workforce, development and young.

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Families, because you know even with two parents working childcare costs at this.

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Point in time were four hitters that allows young families to be able to come.

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Into this workforce, is there a requirement for it to be on-site? What, if.

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It was provided by an operator off-site, I think, as long as the the question is.

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Is how easy is it for an employee or a mom to be able to deliver that kid, and.

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Get to work so if it's in the vicinity of the of the casino facility, I I think.

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That would be reasonable, but you want to make sure that transit is also a simple.

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Option and is there a view that it's to be directly operated by the casino or or.

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Something that's more open as a concept as a benefit provided by the casino to.

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Its workers- well, there could be a number of options there. When we talk about.

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Ongoing funding, for you know a funding stream. It could be that it. You know that.

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Funding stream goes to an operator that that operates that, but it is supported.

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By money and from from the woodbine, okay and final.

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Question: do you see any benefit to the community at large, so should community.

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Member not be employed at the casino directly. Would there be spaces for those.

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That live in the area. Well, that's a question that that I'm not sure how to.

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Answer because I know, there's gonna be resistance to having a child care to.

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Start with some, I don't want to create something that the employers would say.

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Why am I forced to do all these other things if the, if local people feel.

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That's the appropriate thing if the if the operator is willing to do that, I.

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Think people who welcome that, but we want to make sure at least there's childcare for the people that are working there. That's part of a workforce development strategy so holiday other visiting members of council wishing to.

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Ask any questions of the dep unit. Other members of the committee wishing to ask.

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Questions of the deputy councillor shriner, so I'm back john. I I I'm just.

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Trying to understand, then you said your co-chair of the community benefits.

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Network, it's great, so you have been working with residents and our staff.

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Towards this agreement, yes and you're, so there are areas that they're not in.

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Agreement because I was trying to figure that out what can you just list for me, the issues and I understand childcare, you're.

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Looking for childcare for both employees and for the community, am I correct.

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As I said, our initial request is that the childcare be provided to employees.

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That's part of a workforce development if the operator wants to wants to say be.

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Wide open to the community, that would be a wonderful expression of solidarity.

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With that community I had and that's been expressed to them already and their.

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Staff, certainly the staff knows that the staff has done a very good job of taking.

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The 21 conditions that city council set in july 2015.

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Sitting down with the with the operator and saying we'd like to get there, the.

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Staff has told us that they'd be constrained. What was load line in those.

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21 conditions, childcare wasn't set back in 2015. It's been part of what we've.

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Tried to bring into the conversation in the last year and I meet with.

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I don't think we ever said you can't bring something. I think we said what.

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We'd, like you to bring in the 21 conditions, and I and I guess the the.

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Proponent is saying: we're only required to offer so much because of those 21.

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Conditions and our perspective is, we should be continuously improving. This.

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Thing so it's the best it could possibly be and you've been trying to get that so.

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What else, besides the employee, the the childcare we want to, we want to improve.

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The targets driver, we only have three minutes, move the targets on full-time.

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Jobs improve the target on local and equity, hiring. We want better.

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Accountability, reporting, that's transparent and and frequent so that we.

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Get this right and you don't wait for a long time to try and correct something.

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That's not going right and finally, we want the labor council to have a seat at.

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The table at both the oversight committee and also the employment and.

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Market committee, because that's the expertise we bring to a labor market.

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Conversation and that's been relate to our staff, who have said the casino is.

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Saying 21:21 conditions you didn't ask, but you.

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Don't get it well and I guess the the the that mindset where I understand they.

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Are negotiating with the operator and the operator is saying this is what we're willing to do and we're not willing to do other things, and so the.

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Opportunity of city council does go back and say well, actually those other things would make it better. That's and I would say one last thing: there's also labor.

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That's what well I'm trying to ask you questions, I'm sorry, I'd love that you're.

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Trying to see other things too, but that's what you would like us to add to.

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This agreement and that's why you're here today that's correct and what else did you want to say there was a labor peace.

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Requirement that that was put in the original 21 conditions, the casino has.

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Said you've asked us, thank you, the answer is no. We think that should be.

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Brought back in, thank you. Thank you, council shine or any other questions of.

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Mr. cartwright, thanks very much for your deputations and your answers.

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Joanne brown unite here: local 75, masta, torian, counselors, donna bob stop.

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Sorry, oh right, coming after me, she's gonna come after you.

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Yes, okay, duh, miss babcock. Thank you for coming and you're you're on for three.

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Minutes, thank you. My name is donna bob stock. I have worked at woodbine.

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Racetrack for 15 plus years as a server, I am a member of unite here. Local 75, my.

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Union represents 8,000 hospitality workers in the gta, including workers at.

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The woodbine racetrack unite here. Local 75 is the hospitality workers union.

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Achieving remarkable standards for workers in our industry, improving the.

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Lives of the most vulnerable and precarious workers in our sector.

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Particularly immigrant and racialized peoples unite here. Local 75 has been.

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Fighting for workers and members of the rexdale community for many many years.

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We've been a key leader in pushing the interest of community members forward.

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Through empowering local voices and centering their needs with these values.

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In mind, union helped found court community organizing for responsible.

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Development, our work in the rexdale community began over ten years ago, when.

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A major expansion was announced for woodbine racetrack, with our coalition.

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Partners we fought for benefits that expended not only to the workers, but for.

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The rexdale community as a whole, our union worked tirelessly with the glocal.

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Community and our accord partners to ensure that any expansion at woodbine.

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Will directly benefit those of the community? Our union has been at the.

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Forefront of fighting for responsible development, our union is currently.

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Working with the toronto community benefits network t cbn to build on our.

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Experience to make sure that the wood by casino.

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Redevelopment project meets the demands of the community through a legal, binding.

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Community benefits agreement in partnership with major hotels in toronto.

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And with the help of councillor pam mcconnell, god rest her soul. Our union.

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Establish the hospitality workers training center, the hospitality workers.

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Training center is a not-for-profit organization where employees contribute.

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To the provision of employment, support and high-quality training to people.

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Interested in becoming part of the hospitality sector, as well as to.

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Existing workers, all free of charge to those who seek such training in our.

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Sector, the highly successful hospitality workers training center was modeled.

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After unite hairs, culinary training academy in las vegas, which has trained.

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Over 40,000 workers in free, high-quality programs was facilitate entry into the.

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Hospitality industry and improved workers ability to move up in their.

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Careers, our union has achieved incredible gains for workers in the.

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Hospitality, industry and the realm of benefits better quality of life for.

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Families and respect and dignity in the workplace. Therefore, we see good.

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Unionized jobs is fundamental to the rexdale community and this project great.

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Can the canadian gaming must agree to labor peace with our union as we have.

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Achieved labor peace with numerous corporations all over north america. It.

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Is fundamental that we achieve this with the woodbine developer as a union for.

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Hotel and hospitality workers- mr. you done there I'll, have to ask you to wrap.

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Up, though, if you're not just we're just at the limit now, don't you finished, oh.

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You were faster, you alphonse there, okay! Well! Thank you very much for those those.

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Comments and we'll see if there are some questions for you will start with councilor maverick. Thank you very much, sir. Mr. mayor, um as I understand it, you.

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Will have, or unite here will have will be only one of the unions that will be.

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On-Site is that right. Do you know how many I could ask staff.

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This but I'll just oh you're here, four four, four unions, but not everybody else,.

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Will be unionized is that is that there there's some some that will not be.

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Unionized, I think its management- it's not unionized, everybody else is no.

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No, not everyone else is. Okay, sorry, sorry! Well, just we can't have okay you're.

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Trying to be helpful, I know, but when you come up if you're coming up my question.

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Is really around not so much the unionization question, but the the wage.

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That people will get do you think that this agreement should have something in.

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It around a living wage recognizing that there's the minimum wage $14, maybe $15.

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In a year, there's the fair wage, which is the.

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Industry average, but in some sectors the fair wage is actually not a living wage.

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Should we be, should we have a living wage as part of this community benefits.

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Agreement? Yes, which means that a worker would be able to earn enough to raise a.

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Family and there are institutions that figure out what that fair wages. Sorry.

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What that living wage is for the city of toronto, do you think that that should be.

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In the agreement- yes, that's thank you councilman havoc did I see councillor.

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Layton's hand up, I just can't recall there was one other hand up over that way. When I recognized yes, I did all right sorry, I I just wanted to.

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Confirm this number that there's currently 55 percent of people are.

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Full-Time at at woodbine, okay, sorry.

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My apologies. Thank you very much, though. All right thanks, calculating caster.

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Thank you very much, just like my question to a john carr.

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Right earlier about his union or his organization not being represented on.

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The advisory group unite here has not been invited to be on this employment.

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Labor market advisory group is that correct? Yes,.

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And as far as you know, none of the unions are on this labor market. Sorry.

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Employment labor market advisory group that correct, as far as I know,.

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And do you think it would be possible to achieve labor peace without a.

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Conversation with labor, which is one of the requirements you've just stipulated.

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That you're, looking for labor peace for unite here with hospitality workers and.

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The card check neuter ology. Those are that at least two things that your union.

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Is looking for? Yes in the in the community, benefits peace, not to mention.

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The fact that you it's something that all unions are generally asking for and.

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And oftentimes by right they have the ability to achieve correct, yes, and so.

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How how much faith you have in this report right now, considering that staff.

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Have said that they're largely satisfied with every single one of these.

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Conditions being met, and yet the pieces that you're looking for is one of the.

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Four unions representing workers there are not even in the report well, these.

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These two are very vital to me so so do you have faith that your issues, the.

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Issues that your union is looking for, do you have faith that it will be addressed.

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In the final agreement that everybody else is negotiating yes and and how how.

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Will you see yourself influencing that decision if you haven't been able to.

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Influence it to the state. Well, we would like to be part of it, and, and has there.

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Been any invitation to your union to be part of even early discussions, not that.

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I know okay, thank you very much. There are questions of this evident all right.

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Well, thank you very much, mrs. babcock. We appreciate your time and now does that.

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Bring us back to joy and a brown dran brown rather from united 75. You are ms.

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Brown, I am joanne brown. Thank you very much. I.

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Mean and you have three minutes- thank you. My name is joanne brown for 32 years.

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I am a proud employee of wood, bye, racetrack I'm, a proud member of unite.

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Here, local 75 and gratefully, I want to talk about the community within a.

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Community at woodbine, which includes a card check neutrality, agreement very.

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Important which guarantees good union jobs. It took us a long time to get here.

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And we need to build this, this community, within a community.

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This will sustain the horse racing industry, which is number one priority at.

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Woodley it's horse racing. It will also provide for a training center which will.

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Educate the local hires, a daycare center for the 24-hour operation, and that will.

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Provide care for children, so their parents can work in good-paying jobs.

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With benefits, rexdale is a destination to be proud of, and I know this because I.

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Brought my children up in jamestown many many years ago. I left the community and.

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I came back about ten years later back into rexdale.

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And I was hired at woodbine racetrack two of my sons worked with the horses in.

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The back stretch and all three of my sons work in hospitality industry. So I.

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Know it's a good place to live. I know it's a good place to work and I know.

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That it's a good community and I'm hoping that great canadian gaming will.

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Work with woodbine to know what a great place where unions work and how woodbine.

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Can help them to know how that works and that we won't have to fight about.

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Having unions at great canadian game, we need to build this. It's an.

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Opportunity we need to make it happen, I'm hoping that you will make it helped.

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Make us happen and we need to be at the table. Thank you. Questions of this deputy.

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All right well seeing none well! Thank you very much for your. Don't you.

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Appreciate that christine's falling unite here, local 75 just falling here.

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Okay, come on up pete peter peter de gamboa. I can't see he's with it listed.

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With acorn, oh there, you are okay, perfect, so welcome! You have three minutes, sir.

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Good afternoon my name is peter de gama and I'm the acorn etobicoke co-chair a.

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Long time, north, the topical resident and activist a committees victory on behalf.

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Of toronto acorns nor to the pope in north etobicoke members and thousands of.

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Low to moderate income members across the city about the community benefits.

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Agreement of woodbine casino, the benefits proposed and staff reported a.

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Great support to lower income members in the north otago community, our target of.

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40 percent hiring from historically disadvantaged neighborhoods half of.

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Which is minimum should be local, is, is an improvement and something we fought.

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For hopefully, there will be greater movement to to the forty percent target.

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So we can achieve 40 percent local, higher low and moderate-income members.

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Have children and we know that in order for them to work, they must have access.

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To childcare, acorn has been calling for affordable, accessible and fair child.

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Care to our $10 and change campaign, we know that 1700 month average cost.

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Parents for a single child in daycare is much more than many parents can pay that.

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Is why we calling for on-site, affordable childcare provided for employees and.

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There's other things that that we would like to see improved in the support one.

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Of the things that's already been mentioned has been.

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Accountability and enforceability of the targets in order to make this report.

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Staff report go from a good cba to one that is a great cba and that can compare.

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That some of the ones that have been achieved in the states, it's important.

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That we have enforcement measures and quarterly reporting.

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Secondly, it needs to be inclusive, more inclusive, we'd like to see greater.

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Labour representation in the employment working group, eight corn, has worked with.

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The labor in the past and we found that the experience is valuable and we would.

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Like to see this reflected in both employment working group and the.

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Oversight committee on the orca sighted, the committee is important that other.

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Coalition members, like labor, also be represented, and we ask that a corn can.

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Be represented on this committee, downtown councillors know that there are.

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Condo developments go up and the day and there they can make use of section 37.

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Funds being rexdale, don't have that opportunity too often, so we asking we.

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Will be asking canadian gaming is to provide additional supports and.

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Investments into the community childcare scholarships and an ongoing investment.

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Fund in which is to be invested in the community based on needs, a dress, needs.

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Established by the oversight committee, the community has asked for some.

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Reasonable investments like I said, childcare, and we would like to see.

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Post-Secondary scholarships for local residents and the other things that.

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Sense, I just mean you have to bring it to a conclusion. That's all I know I just.

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The other thing is just wanted to mention that this report should.

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Represent climate change goals of the city and see them.

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All right, thank you, sir other questions for mr. de gama, members that can't have.

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Their wong-tam over here hi, I just wanted to ask regarding your.

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Position on the living wage, acorn is an organization that advocates to end.

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Poverty fighting for those low wage earners. The report does not speak to the.

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Living wage, the proponent is not agreeable to the living wage. How.

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Important is the living wage to your organization in measuring the successful.

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Outcome of this, this phase of the discussion- I think that's that's very.

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Important concern that was a part of our proposal and just eat that it's not a.

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Part of the staff report, I think it's something that has to be corrected.

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Corrected in future motion, do you want to speak into your microphone yeah yeah.

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I think that's that the living wage issue is something that needs to be.

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Addressed because many many of the people in write still even.

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And then the minimum wage was $11 dad it's a struggle to live in with the.

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Going up to 14 and 15 dollars, it might be a struggle, so I think the ccp has.

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Established a living wage of 1852 and I think that should be a target that we.

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Should have for workers who may not be part of a union okay. Thank you very much.

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Thank you, councillor wong to him any other questions from councillor holiday.

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There's some questions. Thank you, mara, torrey. Mr. digby, I'm just over here on.

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Behind the projector you brought up, daycare is several times in speaking to.

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Us and I'd like to ask you a similar question about what your vision is for.

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This thing that has come up several times. I had asked one of the previous.

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Speakers about who should pay for the daycare, and I guess the answer I got.

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Back was that it was an employer benefit for the workers there. How do you see it.

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A different agency, your acorn speaking to us about the community: do you see the.

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Necessity for seats for the broader community, whether or not they work there.

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What's your vision, I think, initially initially, it should be for the workers.

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Who work there and there's a residential community if it can be, can if the gaming.

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Can work with that community and we can broaden it to include them. That would be.

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So how did how does it work, though, with with who pays for the daycare? Would that.

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With the casino be paying for community daycare spaces, and how would it work.

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Within the workforce, let's say: there's a manager there, that's making six figures.

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Would they be getting free daycare as well or is there a means test within the.

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Organisation, I I think it's important because it keeps coming up about to.

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Understand what the asset coin has been campaigning for $10.

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And there is a provincial election and they care, as has become an important.

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Issue: it's a the funding should come from different bodies. Provincial would.

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Be asking that space be available at the center okay and that's very important so.

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The distinction I'm getting now is that you use you have a vision for a space.

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For a daycare, as opposed to the actual service overlay or the provision of a.

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Benefit if I got that right for the workers day and I think the employer.

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Should make a contribution for the work is in the day care? Okay, okay, so it would.

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Be like a flat contribution, it's not a benefit to the employee, it would be the.

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Employer making some kind of contribution to set up a day core.

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Organisation in a space, as you put it, I got that right space I mean it should be.

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Spaced, like specialised for daycare, I'm not just saying provide, give us a space.

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And then you they establish all the things that go with the daycare and okay.

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Thank you. Thank you, councillor holiday, other deputy mayor.

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Holiday are there others wishing to question this japanese councillor.

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Nunziata, it's a clarification on the questions that comes from father. They.

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Asked so at community council that question was asked and you made a.

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Deputation, so is it the community space that you're asking for in the daycare.

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Space there are two separate spaces, or is it all one space, because this space.

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Is a different thing at the planning planning committee? I think I think one.

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Of the members that stuff suggested that daycare space could be provided within.

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The existing phase- that's different from the community space community spaces.

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Things for like access to hosting community events like festivals and.

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That's that's anything in this report, but you would like to see more more.

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Things involved like a community center, which is not in this one. They certainly.

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Be in phase 2 yeah! That's what we heard at community council, the community.

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Center, that's what you were advocating for. No, no, I understand I just wanted.

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Clarification on what you said now and will happen that community counts so.

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There was a little bit of a confusion there. Thank you. Thank you.

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Councilor, on sierra other questions of this deputy all right well, thank you.

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Very much then mr. de gama, for your representation and for your questions.

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Patience that would bring us, I think, now, back to.

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My list to kristine smalling local 75- not here not not here, okay, nadine mandal,.

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Unite here, local 75 colette murphy was next executive. Director of the atkinson.

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Foundation, hello, miss murphy, see you thank you for being here. Three minutes.

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Thank you for having me mara, torre, executive council members.

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Good afternoon I'm one of several torontonians who have been working with.

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City staff, residents groups, community organizations, unions, private developers,.

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And other orders of government to put equity at the center of local economic.

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Development community benefit agreements are a critical tool to help realize this.

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Principle, I'm also the executive director of the atkinson foundation, your.

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Partner in this kind of city building, since the 1940s.

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This report demonstrate that toronto is becoming a city that expects more from.

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Their development process more for their money, more for their residents and more.

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Of themselves and their partners, like other thriving north american cities, you.

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Expect investments to do double duty not only create world-class entertainment.

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Attractions like woodbine, but to create wealth and opportunity for people who.

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Are persistently excluded and marginalized a strong community benefits.

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Agreement associated with the woodbine expansion is a critical step on this.

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Path, the agreements impact will be felt for a generation most acutely in north.

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Etobicoke to ensure we can extract the most benefit possible for residents who.

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Urgently need access to economic and social opportunities. We recommend.

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Improvements in two key areas- employment and labor market plans- and supports we.

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Applaud the city for setting robust hard targets with local and equity, hiring and.

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Construction and employment operations, as well as targets for ftes. We note an.

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Absence of any commitment to a living wage floor and employment operations and.

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Would encourage its inclusion to support the creation of decent work.

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Opportunities and in line with the city's poverty reduction strategy.

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Recommendation to champion a living wage, we would encourage raising the minimum.

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Number of new hires through local and social hiring from 22 from 40 to 60% and.

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Include associate workforce wraparound supports like childcare. Finally, we were.

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At become in removing the strengthening the language associated with the 10%.

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Construction targets by removing the clause, reasonable commercial efforts.

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Secondly, related to accountability and oversight, research and experience.

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Demonstrates that key to the success of any community benefits agreement is.

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Transparent, regular monitoring as such, we recommend publicly accessible.

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Quarterly monitoring a first full year report back in 2019, not 2020 and.

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Ensuring meaningful representation in the oversight process, including labor's.

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Expertise in closing, I want to congratulate everyone.

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Involved in putting toronto on this more equitable economic development path, but.

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I especially want to thank reps, tell residents mustafa abdi and peter de gama.

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Community members and local organizers, who spent the better part of a decade.

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Working to ensure their aspirations and expectations of people living in their.

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Community are reflected in this. I want them to know. We share their vision for a.

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Model of economic development in the city that lifts all residents, no.

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Exceptions- and I want to assure them that the atkinson foundation is ready to.

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Roll up our sleeves and work with others to ensure this happens, thank you for.

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Your leadership and for the opportunity to contribute to your deliberations.

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Thank you, miss murphy. We had a question I think from first from councillor want.

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An okay thank you very much for your deputation just to clarify. You have been.

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Involved with the process of trying to in to assist the the proponent of.

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Meeting the 21 recommendations is that correct. We have been working with the.

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City and tc bien and their efforts and more largely in the community, benefit.

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Space and the the piece that that seems to keep coming up as a reoccurring.

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Omission is and there's several of them, I'm just gonna focus on the living wage.

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Component, how important is this community benefit without the living.

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Wage the opportunity here is to create good family, sustaining jobs for people.

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Who need opportunities so having a wage floor that will allow people to.

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Participate fully in their communities and cities is critical, so a living wage.

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Floor as a minimum is a great starting point and because I haven't been part of.

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Those discussions, but you have it- has been brought up. It has been raised.

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Several times I would imagine in the discussions I have not been in the.

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Discussions room, but I understand as part of the 21 conditions. It was not.

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Included and therefore has not been vigorously discussed, and so, as as it.

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Sits today, the your remarks tells us that we have some work to do still and.

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If we don't hit the benchmarks that you've identified, removing the.

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Reasonable commercial efforts with respect to targets for full-time.

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Employment- and I think there was another piece in there about regular reporting.

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And monitoring, if it doesn't hit those three pieces for you, would you deem the.

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Agreement as something that the city should sign that that's enough for the.

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City council, to endorse the the proposal, the city is committed to building a.

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Community benefits policy framework: this is going to be one of your first pieces.

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Of the gate, and we want to ensure that the floor of this kind of work as as.

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Strong as possible and that equity is baked in not sprinkled on, and so I I.

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Think that I mic our colleagues and staff has worked very hard to get us to.

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This point, I would encourage you to push harder to make sure that out the gate.

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This is a two decade plus agreement, and so if in the first round not out I'd.

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Look to see if there was something that could be put in that this is revisited.

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In three years or two years, 2020 at the end of phase one. But I would not be.

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Happy to see twenty, two years from now, we get to have a discussion about living.

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Wage thank you. I next had councillor to georgia. If there are no other visiting.

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Members wishing to question I had counselor to george, oh and then deputy mayor viola. Thank you mr. mayor. So I wonder if you could just clarify for me.

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The comment you made with respect to the elimination of reasonable commercial.

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Efforts which happens to be one of the new- I guess the wording and in one of.

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The conditions here can you sort of clarify why you want that eliminated.

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Because if it's not a hard target, somebody can say hey, we tried, we did our.

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Best, but we couldn't make it when we said at our.

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Of 10% there's an expectation you deliver on that. This language provides.

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Wiggle room to get around that. It also has a certain amount of flexibility from.

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A contractor's point of view, because if I am a main contractor and hiring.

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Subcontractors and I put in a condition that they have to hire 10 percent from.

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The local community, obviously there will be some contract, some subcontractors.

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That will comply with the reference so that I put out there and some that will.

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Not so, I think, there's sufficient safeguards in place, but I'm not sure.

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That the elimination of that kind of flexibility for a main contractor would.

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Accomplish what history tells us and from our studies as a foundation, that's.

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Looked at it in other jurisdictions, when we leave those kinds of big off ramps,.

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Then we create an ability for us to make best intention but not deliver. I think.

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Right now, the city is doing an extraordinary job building something.

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Called construction connections- that's working to put supply residents who need.

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Opportunities and are interested in the construction sector with contractors and.

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Subcontractors, who have those opportunities, agree with me that the.

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Weather this, the service provider complies with that condition, is a.

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Judgement call that the city will make because they're really a party to the.

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Agreement, that's right, there'll, be they are the signatory, as I understand it, to.

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The agreement- I guess what I'm saying is- I believe that the city would hold the.

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Provider to that particular condition, and it's not a hard condition to satisfy.

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In my view, agreed all right, thank you. Thanks, councilor digiorgio.

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Councillor deputy mayor bi-lo, just a very quick question: we're talking about.

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Living which could you could you give us an example, some numbers just for people.

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That are not familiar with it. What are we talking about when we talk about.

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Living wage, I think when it was last updated and I'm not quite sure when it.

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Was just under $20 per hour q, but I defer to someone else in the room who.

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Might have the most up-to-date number 1852 is that class? I think it.

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Might be 1852 62 1862? Yes, all right that all the questions are. Ok, thanks, deputy.

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Mayor barlow, do I have anybody else on the speaker's list for this deputy area.

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Questions this for this tap. Okay, thank you very much. Miss murphy, much.

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Appreciate it now, then, we are miss smalling and miss mantle mandal. Both.

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Passing or waiting another time- or I just want to make clear what I don't.

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Want to pass you over, but you're, both you're okay. Thank you very much that.

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Brings us to theo lagakos president public servants, alliance of canada, local.

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5:33. Thank you. Mr. mayor councillors, just start last summer, woodbine.

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Employees, like myself, were locked out of the old g, because we raised a variety of.

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Concerns including job security and the fact that we lost our provincial pension.

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Plan before the lockout, our part-time employees were able to get at least.

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Three shifts per week, which meant that they could keep their benefits since the.

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Lockout has ended. The average part-time employee now only gets two shifts a week.

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And at that rate, their ability to keep their benefits over the next year will.

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Diminish my personal concern and the concern of the local is that great.

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Canadian keeps its full-time part-time ratio and does not keep moving towards.

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For reducing staffing levels as this the current practice, this union is also not.

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In favor of casino woodbine's decision to bring in outside workers during.

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Bargaining unit work, which is the case right now- this local, is deeply concerned.

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About the way which promotions are implicated, which creates for the people.

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Packing the facility to the point in which the main entrance had to be closed.

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I've raised this concern with management, but they do not believe I do not believe.

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They take us seriously in regards to safety, and I urge the city to.

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Investigate the congestion on the gaming floor, particularly during promotions like to like on thursday evenings my.

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Understanding is the newcomb. He keeps a larger portion of profits by.

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I did a number of slot machines on the gaming floor, so they are indifferent to.

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Both the patron and the ploys concerns regarding cramping space, all for making.

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More profits, also since wallet buying, is no longer.

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Government agency, but a private operator given a 22 year lease by the one.

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Government, it appears the casinos priorities have shifted, making profit is taking precedent over everything else.

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In fact, the ag ceo has deregulated and made j many changes concerning casino.

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Operations with less regulation, it is more likely for problems to rise. I've.

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Worked at woodbine for over eight and a half years. And if you ask me if there's.

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Anything sadder and more pathetic than an individual addicted. You gambling, I.

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Would tell you it's a government's addiction to gambling revenues. The.

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Health and welfare of our community should be should take precedence over.

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Profits, I understand we can't go backwards and stop gambling and that the.

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Future revenue sources is important to the city and the province, but I also.

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Believe that, now more so than ever, we need tougher rules and regulations.

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Government should not rely on liquor gambling and in the future, selling weed.

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To balance its budgets and also law should be the same throughout the board.

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For example, do you know at woodbine we still have a smoking section, that's less.

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Than 9 meters from the building, this union has been played to authorities.

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Over years regarding smoking, however, there's some sort of legal loophole that.

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Allows this to exist. I used this example to illustrate to you.

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For the need to have laws that are consistent before you decide to give the.

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Green light, I urge you all to remember your civic duty, don't just give in to.

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Expansion for the sake of inspection expansion sake allow the company that.

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Makes don't allow them anything that makes billions to get away with posting.

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Part-Time jobs that are only two days a week make sure that a 24 hour, casino.

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Operates and pays for 24-hour day care center, as this community and the.

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Employees are desperate need of. I have to ask okay. Lastly, our jobs at casino.

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Woodbine our present and our only guaranteed until january, 23rd 2019 as.

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Per the ontario government, steel of selling, the business, the workers and the.

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People of wreck still deserve better than this reality. We asked city council.

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To assist us and making full time shares and making full-time jobs not disappear.

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Thank thank you very. Very much. Are there questions of this deputy.

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Council a yes, thank you very much hello. I didn't recognize you there. Well, that's.

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Several years ago that we had the pleasure of of discussing this very same.

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Issue yeah the issue with the full-time and part-time jobs. I read your letter.

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But then saw you shaking your head at the answer. So can you give us an answer.

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To whatever proportion of full-time job that we are, four different unit unions.

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Local 75 represents the unionized workers at woodbine, entertainment group.

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That's the racetrack okay. I represent the four hundred employees that work at.

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The casino side that used to be called the oh gees thoughts of woodbine there's.

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55 percent part-time employment, not full-time employment, down at the casino.

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And we're worried that that number is going to increase.

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Sorry, it's 55 percent part time part-time, part-time and you're worried.

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That's going to increase because the law, your your members, are being restricted.

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To two shifts a week, because exactly what the reality is that ever since.

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We've been privatized everything ever since we just agreed to a collective.

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Agreement and we try to get labor peace, the amount of ships available to people.

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Has been being reduced to the part-time staff, all in the stake of making more.

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Profit and the excuse by the private operator is well. The government wants.

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More profit from us, so this is the way we're gonna give more profit by cutting.

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Hours to employees, so if, if we don't have a good strong percentage of.

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Full-Time employment on the site, you think that that that number will.

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Decrease in order for for the operator and the province to maximize absolutely.

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Mr. layton, and I also want to tell you that at least a couple years ago, if you.

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Look at the ontario reports that come out all these thoughts at woodbine.

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Generated six hundred and twenty five million dollars in profit. So when these.

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Private operators are crying that they can't afford daycare, or they can't.

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Afford to give people than more than two shifts per week, something is really.

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Really wrong and when you're a part-time employee, you don't qualify for benefits.

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You do qualify if you get a certain amount of hours, but if you don't.

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Maintain you those hours, those benefits disappear, and do you think that, given.

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The the city gets such a small share of revenue that, whether or not we have a 40.

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Percent full-time or a 60 percent full-time will really affect the amount.

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Of money that the city receives exactly because, if you, if you look at the gaming.

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Industry, these guys these guys live and breathe out of trying to squeeze as much.

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Money out of people's pockets as possible. You said it, I didn't just say.

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That later, that's that's the reality and.

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They're gonna try and squeeze as much money out of the city of toronto and.

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They're gonna dangle this carrot and they're gonna, say well we're gonna, build hotels, we're gonna, create all these jobs. It's your civic duty to make them.

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Responsible to create good jobs, because you know having been in the rexdale for.

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Over 30 years, I could tell you that the people there deserve better and if we're.

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Going to get a world-class facility in rexdale.

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We deserve better, we don't deserve to be shafted. I I couldn't have said it better.

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Myself, thank you very much. You're welcome other.

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Questions have come for councilman havoc. Yes, you're saying that right now the.

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Position for the people running the gaming machine, sir. Well, I'm sorry I've.

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Got a public glass back on is 55%. Our part-timers and 45% are full.

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Timers in and about I mean it fluctuates, it fluctuates. That number fluctuates.

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There's nothing in your union contract that says a certain percentage must be.

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Full-Time part-time! No! But if you like to come with me next time in bargaining.

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I'd love to have you next to me sure: okay, and what do you think is a fair.

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Seeing that it's not in your contract, what do you think it's a fair ratio.

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Full-Time versus part-time! Well, you know: how? Should we? Because, at the end of the.

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Day we need to establish targets and if, if I'm not sure what this is doable but.

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If there is going to be a target, it has to be a numeric target, I'll answer that.

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By giving you a little reality check of what a regular employee does when they.

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Come to me at the union office they're, usually breaking down they're.

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Usually distressed because they don't have a.

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Consistent schedule, their schedules all over the place, there's no consistency in.

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The schedule- and they don't know whether they're going to keep that to that to.

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Day part-time job or not give that from the to day part-time job and to have.

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People after people coming in to me breaking down you know in this day and.

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Age I say to myself: you know, there's all this wealth in toronto apparently, but we.

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Don't have enough money to have full-time jobs. You know everyone has to.

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Work: two jobs, three jobs; everyone that I know of my family, my friends and rexdale,.

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Everyone has to have two or three jobs. Is that the norm now you have to have.

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Two or three jobs and try and get some benefits here and try and get some.

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Benefits there, why isn't government helping and supporting workers where why.

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The absent in that, why is there's this big void between the haves and the.

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Have-Nots, so if to put it numerically, then I think what you're saying is: is.

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That all the jobs that can be full-time should be full time so that we can.

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Provide, as we said, our poverty reduction strategy, quality jobs and livable.

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Incomes absolutely thank you. Thank you, counselor. My.

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Headache, counselor or cancer. One can thank you very much mr. merrick, and can.

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I just ask the the the speaker with respect to the lockout that took place.

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Can you just stay for us again? What year was that lockout? It was this past summer.

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It was just this past summer and what were the issues that caused so basically.

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What's happened, is we were a crown corporation and basically 8,000 jobs.

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Across the province of ontario, all the casino operations which are profitable.

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By the way, the wind government decided not to sell them not to even privatize.

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Them because that would mean real competition. Instead, what the premier.

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Decided to do was to give a 22 year lease very similar to the floral 7.

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Project because they didn't want to have the headaches, I guess of running the the.

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Casino and the operations as a result of that, what did we get? We got a one year.

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Guarantee that we'll have our full-time jobs for one year and our pension plan.

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Which was very good was replaced with not a comparable pension plan because.

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There's no wording in it. The government didn't allow us to have a comparable.

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Pension plan- this is the province, so in a lot of ways we had no. We had no other.

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Recourse but not but but to fight basically the corporation, so that we.

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Could have a living wage so that we could live our lives so that we don't.

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Have to have this crazy schedule, you know that's all over the place, but I.

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Think, unfortunately, because the olg generates so much revenue and provides.

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So much revenue to the media, none of the media wants to write any real, in-depth.

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News stories about what was going on inside the oil gene, can you give us an.

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Update on the status of that labor dispute, well I mean we. We signed the.

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Collective agreement we're back at work, but what I indicated to you is.

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Conditions of work have changed, safety conditions have changed because they're.

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Jamming all the slot machines in there to make as much my.

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As possible, the part-time workers are getting less hours, so that's changed as.

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Well, people are disgruntled and with respect.

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To the report that's before us, which is largely premise thanh, the proponents.

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Satisfying at least of 21 conditions, do you believe it's strong enough as it.

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Stands right now, absolutely not, and so considering that your your labor.

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Rights have have seen an erosion right. We don't start from a position of.

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Strength, do you think it will only get stronger after we sign the agreement or.

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Will it get weaker afterwards? I think you have to hold. You have to hold big.

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Business accountable and if you don't hold them accountable, they are going to.

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Manipulate you every single time, they're going to say to city council here we'll.

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Throw thirty million dollars your way, keep everything quiet! Let everything.

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Roll, let them keep smoking at woodbine. Who cares what the rules are the rest of.

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The province, you know you have to hold them accountable.

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Don't let them manipulate you. Thank you. Thank you. Councillor wong time, other.

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Questions of this deputy counsel, deputy viola, you mentioned childcare yeah. What.

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Could be the impact of childcare on on on the site? So we have a lot of single.

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Moms and a lot of times, they'll come to me again: they'll come to the union.

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Office and and they're trying to do to to manage things, manage their life and.

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Most of them can't afford any type of childcare. In terms of you know, unless.

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It's someone taking care of their kids within their own community. You know.

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Because it costs so much if you're making 17 bucks an hour, how can you.

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Afford childcare, even in rec still, you can't that's most likely the average of.

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Many of the people, though, absolutely absolutely so, then you know you hear.

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Horror stories, sometimes someone will say you know you know, they'll tell me in.

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Confidence, you know I'll leave my kid at home and and work. You know, work the.

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Night shift in you can't do that, but people are.

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Desperate, that's what rexdale is it's a desperate.

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Desperate area of the city and no offense must afford there, but.

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Nothing nothing has been done in the last 30 years of rec state. My opinion.

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Some people have questioned, I mean, why would you put you know a childcare in in.

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There do you think there are issues I mean these are people that are going to work to work at the hotels to work at the casinos. You see any issue other than.

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Facilitating it for the workers to have the child, I I only represent the workers.

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There now I'm only talking on behalf of the workers, I'm not representing anyone.

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From the community, even though I lived in the committee living in the community.

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For 30 years, like I said, but it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's! It's a.

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Fact of life, you know people people are trying to get.

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Into these jobs and the employers know that workers are desperate and once an.

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Employer knows a worker is desperate union or no union they're gonna squeeze.

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You as much as they can is this been done with in other places,.

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That you know of in terms of providing daycare, I mean these, are you know things.

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That I've read in the media and stuff, but I'm not an expert in it all. I know.

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Is that there's a great demand for it? That's all. I know.

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How many people are gonna be well there's 404 of 440 people, which are my.

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Union and there's another 150 people that represent security and then another.

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30 people that represent surveillance- that's right now on the site. That's.

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Right so you had about 700 and something this is at the casino they're saying.

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They're gonna double that number they're gonna add another 300 if they bring in.

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The table games, which is fine but at the same time and the hotel workers and then.

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The hotel workers and all that which is fine but make sure that you're operating.

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The the property with with best business practices- you know the old g's sort of.

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Failed at that- and I don't see much difference in the new emperor.

K

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So go ahead. Yeah! Thank you! So, through your mr. mayor, sir, I think I've.

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Heard you here before it good, yes, and you just said something which I found.

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Rather interesting and I wonder if you could expand on it, you said that in 30.

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Years, nothing has been done in this area. Yes, sir, I stand on it so tell me that.

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Nothing that has been that so you're telling me that all the councillors and.

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All the people worked in the area and by the way, yeah. I also did make a decision.

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To actually vote to support a casino at this location, so nothing has ever been.

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Done in 30 years, because I've heard you say things like that's right- that's right! Laughing! Okay! What about school violence in the area has that improved.

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In the last 30 years I don't think so. Well, you know you know, I don't look.

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After school, we're not we're not having a debate we're having a.

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Question-And-Answer period, so oh jesse, the councillor thompson, asked a question.

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And mr. lagoons is gonna, give an answer and then we'll move forward all right. I.

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Was just gonna answer that in all the time that I'd lived, their police.

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Department, fire department up and down kipling all the time.

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A lot of unfortunate events going on in the schools in the area over there, it's.

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Very, very sad, very, very sad and you know I grew up near lads down in dupont.

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4 first 20 years of my life, and I could tell you wreck sale compared to lads.

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Down at dupont, rexdale has not has not progressed as much as the rest of the.

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City and that's why everyone here is fighting for a little bit of progress.

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And we're giving you a real reality check on what's happening on the work.

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Sites all right, thank you both okay. Thank you, mr wegg arcos. Thank you jane.

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Mercer toronto, correlation coalition for better child care, mercer, hello, hello, three minutes: you have and thank you for your patience.

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Thank you no problem good afternoon counselors and thank you.

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Very much for giving me the opportunity to speak to this item and most excitedly.

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The community benefits agreement, I'm at the toronto coalition for better.

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Childcare we've worked with families right across the city to do as much as.

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We can to bring affordable, high quality, accessible childcare to communities from.

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North and south and east and west I decade ago had the opportunity and the.

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Privilege to work with the rexdale community as they formed court. I worked.

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With folks in the community with unite here, 75- and I tell you I learned so much.

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About that community about our city, it was so exciting for me as a learning.

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Opportunity- and I think there was just a debate there about how well we know.

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Rexdale, we really have a huge opportunity to support this community, an.

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Opportunity that they've been desperately needing for decades.

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This is our opportunity, families who work at woodbine. They are all of those.

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Employees that we've been hearing about the vast majority would be earning low.

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Income wages, certainly proportionately, the vast majority, are women. I would say.

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The majority of them, given the age groups, would be mothers of young.

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Families they work, shift, works, shift, work and they are trying desperately in.

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The hospitality industry to get their children to childcare so that they can.

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Start a shift on the other end of town for six o'clock in the morning. This is.

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Our opportunity to put childcare on site yes on site and primarily for those work.

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But definitely it can be for the community. This is our opportunity when.

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This was drawn up, the community benefit agreement. I keep hearing 2015, it floated.

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Around well, we didn't have our toronto child care growth strategy. Then council.

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Has passed a toronto child care growth strategy last summer? That was very.

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Impressive, we are very excited. We are also excited by the investment of.

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Funding from senior levels of government: this is our opportunity and there won't.

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Ever be a better sight than to make your first real hard investment in child care.

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And hold your developer and your employer to account to the community. You.

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Alternative is you know we can either build and have families living and.

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Working and supportive with child care in the community.

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Or they are ping-ponging across the 401 trying to get their families cared for.

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And get to work on time. Let's seize this opportunity. Put the toronto chalk, hair.

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Growth strategy overlay it with this community benefits agreement and, let's.

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Show the rest of toronto. What can really happen when a community gets together.

C

All right, thank you very much. We gave you a few extra seconds to finish up.

C

There and appreciate that, so we had a head first on my list, councillor davis.

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And then councillor, wong, cam and we'll go from there thanks jane.

B

I did just want to ask you I'd heard there were many questions about what.

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Workplace, child care might be and who subsidizes it and operating versus.

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Capital and operating budgets there there are many examples of workplace.

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Child care center, both in this city and in the province correct. There are.

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Sometimes the operating costs of the facility, the capital costs of building.

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Plus the operating costs, some kind of operating subsidy can be.

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Given by the actual employer, in order to give either preferential admissions or.

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Or to reduce a mr. chair, it's really hard. I can't even hear myself in order.

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To ensure that the employees can have access to a quality childcare, so it.

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Takes various forms, the in terms of the levels of subsidy that can be available.

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From government or the employer, is that fair to say absolutely, and I mean you.

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Start with the capital investment- and I think we start from a premise of expect.

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An expectation of developers not can you put a childcare in here, but where will.

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The childcare be that's what we have to start with. We have development.

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Expectations that say x, number of parking spaces. We have development.

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Expectations on all sorts of things, we need a development expectation that says.

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Where is the childcare going to be and 24-hour workplaces are a challenge, but.

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There are places that have provided extended hours, at least for workers who.

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Are working in 24/7 operations? Correct, that's correct!.

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I mean you may not get to 24-hour right away.

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But you certainly can to extended hours, which might start at 6 o'clock on-site.

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As opposed to 7:30 on the other side of town, so you can go a long way with those.

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Extended hours, ok- and we have examples of those- yes, we do places. Thank you.

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Thank you all right davis. Thank you very much.

C

Councillor longtan. Thank you very much. Mr. mayor with respect to the the.

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Requirement for childcare just about every single speaker that has.

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Today has said that childcare was definitely a requirement and needs to be.

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On the include in a community benefits agreement, what's what's this community.

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Benefits agreement worth if it doesn't include child care at the end of the day.

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You know, we know, we know it's just getting increasingly difficult to live.

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And work in this city, if you do not have access to childcare, I don't know how.

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You're expected to do it on an $18 an hour wage, even two jobs, which, sadly is.

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What we're pushing families into you know even with that wage, there is no way.

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That you can participate in our workforce without childcare. If you have.

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A young family and if you're not participating in our workforce, then.

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You're, going off to whitby or hamilton or somewhere else to raise your family.

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We are going to lose a whole generation if we don't pull them back by making.

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Sure that our city is not just employment, it's also families, homes and.

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We have- I was here for the morning and it was wonderful to hear how smart track.

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Or our transit system can create real hubs and communities.

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Well, childcare is just like transit, you cannot work without it and considering.

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That women are the prime oast of the time, are the primary caregivers without.

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The provision and inclusion of childcare in the community benefits agreement do.

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You think that we're going to have a workforce there at the new, expanded wood.

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Line that will have women gainfully taking advantage of these new economic.

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Opportunities without well, I think, sadly, and there will be better experts than I.

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On this, but you can see it tipping, but if you don't provide the opportunity for.

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Really good jobs, not precarious jobs, but good jobs with childcare. When you.

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Provide that people can grow in those jobs and develop in those jobs.

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Without that kind of support, you're going to find a very precarious.

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Workforce that will come in when it's desperate, I'm sorry mike. My question was.

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That, if childcare is not provided, if it's not included in the in the cba, the.

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Final draft of the cba, knowing that women are the primary caregivers who is.

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Going to get these jobs, these new great jobs that would bind well, it won't be.

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Women that will stay, it will be people that are exploited because they're.

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Desperate and then they will move on, I don't know who's going to get those jobs.

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I suppose young people without kids- I it will not build a strong workforce and it.

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Will not build a happy or stable workforce or community. Thank you. Thank.

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You thanks counselor wong time I had the next counselor all of a deputy mayor ala.

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Day, thank you, mary tori and sorry about the get a visual connection here again.

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Similar to the other people that spoke to us, child care has come up and I want.

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To try to understand a bit better on the detail of thinking that you got and how.

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This might work the community benefits agreement pertains to a section of the.

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Site, that's being developed and do you vision this child care being inward.

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Focused on the workers- and I think the total projection is 5,000 over time or.

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Do you see it just as a general advice to this table here about the need for.

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Child care in the area, and how do you see this serving the workers versus the.

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The broader community, I think, absolutely it we need to have childcare on-site.

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Okay, definitely the workers will need that. Okay. However, I don't think that.

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Means you can't work with the community. There are often workplace childcare.

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Programs that first of all developed by the developer or the spaces provided by.

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The corporation, the owner, the operator, that's an enormous benefit to your anto.

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And then it can be, but maybe there's an agreement where priority goes to.

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Employees that are on the wait list, employees that may well be eligible for.

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A subsidy under our current children's services system, so I would say the.

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Majority would be eligible. Sometimes they can't find the space now you're.

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Giving them the space it can still be open to the community. It may even be.

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Operated by a community partner up in etobicoke, we have several strong.

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Childcare programs that may operate several sites. They may be happy to come.

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In and operate as a not-for-profit existing community partner within.

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Woodbine, so it isn't woodbine that has to operate it. But again it's an.

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Opportunity to work with the community with 5000 workers projected according to.

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The report, and if you know the site, do you do you, how big do you see the.

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Childcare being like how many seats would you call it in order to serve the.

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Workers on-site in the community, and do you feel that that that geographic.

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Location is a suitable place for childcare. Well, as for how many spaces, I.

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Would certainly say your staff have a very thorough children services plan.

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Developed over the years, they have a very thorough toronto growth, childcare.

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Growth strategy, they could probably nail it like that.

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Exactly how many sort of spaces we would look to put in there is an optimal.

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Number that makes it a good operating number and is it an ideal site if the.

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Workers are there or if people are living there, that is an ideal site for.

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Childcare, thank you, deputy mary holiday deputy mayor viola, councillor anna, oh.

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You're up, yes, thank you. Could child care be an.

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Impediment for some of those women to have access to the jobs.

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The lack of the lack of lack of childcare absolutely especially because.

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Like I dunno having worked with you night here before, you know just how many.

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People work downtown but live up in scarborough or rexdale.

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Or wherever I have to make it down, childcare is a huge lack of childcare. Is.

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A huge impediment to women across the city, but when you are low income, women.

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We're not talking cashing in your rrsps to get child care. We're talking. You know.

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Becoming homeless to find childcare, so people are making terrible choices.

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Without childcare and as I say, because we now have our toronto childcare growth.

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Strategy a much greater investment the time the opportunity is right now to put.

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It in place, so your message is basically take advantage of the opportunities.

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We're planning this age what it will be: a huge employment center. Yes, you have.

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The conditions for everybody to take advantage of these what could be with.

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Good jobs absolutely and I think, just like with transit, you know we're already.

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Behind in the development of chocolate, we don't want to look at this in five or.

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Ten years and say, I can't believe they didn't put childcare there below now. Do.

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I have members of the other members of the committee wishing to ask questions.

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Of this deputy going once going twice and well, thank you. I'm sorry. That's.

C

Alright, councillor thompson, sorry I'll be quick! Mr. mayor, um thank you very.

H

Much miss mercer, I didn't get, are you you do you live in a tropical? No, I do.

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Not but you work in the rexall area with respect to your so you know I worked in.

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That in that degree, in that capacity, yes, I worked on behalf of the toronto cola.

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Coalition in childcare right and so could you then speak to child care.

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Services in that area at the moment- well, yes, they're, pretty lean, yes, tobiko, like.

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Scarborough is quite spread out right. So, of course, if it's there's a neighborhood.

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Talk here, but it's still three buses and and 45 minutes to get to it. So that's.

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Why bringing it to a workplace is really the? So if it's inadequate now and we're.

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Looking forward to having more women into the workforce.

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Yes, we're saying that, there's a necessity to ensure that to advance the.

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Opportunity for people who would like to have an opportunity yeah there should be.

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A place in collaboration with the employer, but child care services is.

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Providing you're not suggesting that the employer themselves provide it there.

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Other agencies who they can work with and in conjunction with the city in.

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Order to make that available absolutely so I think it is like. Certainly the.

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Capital costs, and certainly let's get it in on the ground floor literally, but.

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Then we're working with the city to make sure the subsidies are there for.

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Families and the community too, it's all got to come together. At the same time,.

H

Okay, thank you. Thank you very much thanks counselor thompson. Other.

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Questions of the deputy okay! Well, thank you very much for your very thoughtful.

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Answers- and we appreciate your time so that brings us on the list pedro.

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Parata from the united way senior vice president of the united way there he is.

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Counsel for this opportunity, and thanks also to.

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City staff for their hard work and significant community engagement in.

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Getting us to this milestone, this is a good day for rex dale and for the north.

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West of our city, this agreement is really welcome news. It brings jobs to.

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Neighborhoods, where they're needed most it's a major win for the city's poverty.

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Reduction strategy and it also builds a strong workforce and fills labor market.

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Gaps specially given demographic pressures regarding the skilled trades.

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We welcome the inclusion of employment targets that connect disadvantaged.

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Populations with job opportunities and construction in social procurement on.

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Good full-time jobs around operations and through access to community space, we.

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Know that setting targets works not only because it sets a standard for.

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Accountability, but also because it gets everyone on the same page about how we.

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Need to work together to meet that target on the eglinton crosstown setting.

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A standard has helped to create 150, good jobs, career kind of jobs and more than a.

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Hundred and fifty thousand dollars for social procurement and that's in year.

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One alone, and after a lot of work by many organizations, united way included.

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We are now on the cusp of doing something amazing on the crosstown and.

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We can do that here too. One important innovation- that's happened out of the.

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Cross down that we can apply here is to break silos and to align employment.

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Programs that help the city province, community trade centers work better.

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Together, fewer programs operating as ships in the night, greater clarity and.

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Efficiency when it comes to connecting people to resources and so working with.

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A city with labor with the province we have created a new one-stop shop, client.

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Center construction pathway, that's called construction connections. It's.

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Helping young people navigate from whatever situation they find themselves.

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In to real careers, and so we hope that in this report, you'll consider naming.

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Construction connections as a successful initiative worth building on regarding.

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Woodbine, we also ask you to consider that labor be included in the oversight.

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Committee and the employment and labor market advisory labor are essential.

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Partners or have been essential partners in making crosstown work, and we need.

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Their knowledge and access at the table here too.

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We also know from both the crosstown and programs like pay.

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That investing in young people through wraparound supports is a way to ensure their success. Things like child care, housing, mental health.

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Supports all of these are essential for us to break the cycle of poverty, and we.

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Hope that this agreement will prioritize youth facing multiple barriers and the.

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Importance of wraparound supports in connecting them to opportunities, as we.

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Implement provisions around social procurement. I also want to point out.

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That the toronto enterprise in toronto enterprise fund a partnership between.

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United way, the city of toronto, the federal government and the province is.

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Building supply of social enterprises and acts as a one-stop shop for.

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Employers and contractors, and to wrap up. I hope that, as we break new ground on.

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This project we we can really contribute to new thinking and new ways of working.

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We're very pleased as united way to be part of a community oversight committee.

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And to ensure that it is a success, we believe that quarterly quarterly.

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Reporting a clear measurement and evaluation framework and regular.

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Dialogue with community is essential. We're pleased to join with other.

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Partners such as tc bn and the city of toronto, to contribute in many tangible.

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Ways to make this visionary agreement work for economy, for our workforce, for.

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Young people and for strong communities. Thank you for your time, sir mavic and.

C

Then councillor layton, I think I saw your hand at night and okay we'll go.

C

From there cosmetic, thank you very much. Mr. burrata, you with the united way.

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Toronto, new york region, you're, I'm the one- might be surprised seeing you here.

H

Focusing on on woodbine, why is it that the united way has an interest in this.

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Area this piece of work and this traditional social service provider and.

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So we we, we are actually in either way greater toronto, and, as of april 1st, we.

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We have joined forces with toronto york and peel region and what we see.

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Especially based on the latest research from the census, income inequality is that need, does not see geographic boundaries and we're.

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Seeing that, for example, the difference between north scarborough and markham or.

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The difference between rexdale and brampton is not that different in terms.

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Of poverty, in terms of need and in terms of what we're facing in terms of.

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Precarious employment, we are main our main job is united way is to help ensure.

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That we have community services at the local level that are meeting the immediate needs of residents. But we also have to realize that we can't just be.

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Happy with a revolving door of charity model when we're facing growing.

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Precarity in our labor market and a real crunch around affordable housing, and we.

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Also know that the solutions for the problems that we're facing now are not.

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Easy ones they're, not solutions that are going to be just about the private.

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Sector just about the community just about government, they have to be about.

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New ways of working together in leveraging each other's resources and.

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Just being willing to take risks and being willing to innovate, community.

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Benefits as we've seen on the crosstown and now as we have an opportunity to see.

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Here on, woodbine are exactly those petri dishes where we're going to drive.

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Innovation, where we are going to bring it every resource at the table, where we.

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Are going to break down silos and make sure that we're meeting the needs of.

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Clients when and where they need them, both in terms of social services but in.

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Terms of careers as well in our work at united way, we have done tremendous work.

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With the city in building new community hubs in creating resident leadership in.

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Bringing services where they're needed most and as we go back and.

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Speak with residents, we hear that all of these things are really important and we.

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Need to continue to build on them and and do more, but that people are also.

R

Hungry for jobs and opportunities- and this is a concrete way in which we can.

R

Really build a better future for everyone. Thank you councillor. Where did.

C

I written down over there where no I haven't I haven't. I had to accounts a.

C

Long time I had another hand- and over here accounts the laitanan councillor.

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Johnson, okay, so long time, constant long time, counselor late in the councillor.

C

Thompson, thank you very much. Mr. merrick, with respect to the the the slide.

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Presentation that you've just shown us you've obviously identified that there.

O

Are some some gaps in the the staff report with respect to the cba as being.

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Proposed right now, out of the five, I think five key areas.

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What is the one that is the most important to you if you can even choose.

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One that is a difficult question, but I would I would start with that with the.

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People who were we're here to serve and and I would start with just really.

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Ensuring that we prioritize youth and populations facing multiple barriers and.

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That we do the hard work to make sure that the wraparound supports. Are there.

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And that the integration of services is there to really get at those populations.

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So I think that you know defining the targets and reaching into communities.

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That are farthest away from the centre is, is our job we have to take on the.

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Hard stuff- and we have to challenge ourselves to make sure that nobody's left behind and with respect to the report itself, it doesn't actually meet.

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It doesn't specify any targets, it talks very sort of vaguely about the types of.

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People that that they are sort of targeting would you welcome emotion,.

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That's that gets a little bit deeper and and starts asking about youth and and.

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Equity seeking groups primarily youth, so my understanding is that the report does.

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Have a very comprehensive definition of disadvantaged populations and of local.

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Populations and if that's, if that's not coming out, then the more that we can do.

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To strengthen that, then we should do it. I certainly have.

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Seen it there and I'm just underscoring how important it is that we focus on.

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Those populations, but you you, you specifically name youth, that that needs.

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To be included because it sits in your five page presentation here how.

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Appropriate is it for youth to be employed at a casino. We are looking at.

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Young people who are starting out in terms of their careers and what we've.

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Seen in terms of success, around construction careers in construction and.

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We have seen that by working with communities and by connecting young.

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People to those careers that they can really thrive. We have also seen on the.

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Across town that more white quote-unquote white-collar jobs, like.

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Professional administrative and administrative and technical jobs are.

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Also, really important pathways for newcomer populations who come with.

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International with international you who are internationally trained and also for.

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Young people, so I think that there are many ways into into a career. Thank you.

O

It's my time up, I think my is my time up. Mr. mayor, do I have one more minute.

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Because I think, if it was packed on to they you're right means, you have 30 more.

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Seconds. Okay, so then my final question is a city council directed staff to.

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Identifies some cost associated casinos, especially social services, additional.

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Anticipated additional policing costs that information is not contained in.

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This report- and you are the united way and you represent the united way. Many of.

O

Those social services are you're funded agencies. Will you have the capacity to.

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Meet the the the elevated service requirements based on the fact that.

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You've got a large and expanded casino coming, so we certainly look forward to.

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Being part of the, because we are the oversight table, we hope that one of the.

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Things that we'll be able to do is to do continued monitoring of what the impacts.

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Are, and to work with all of our partners to make sure we are, we can get ahead of.

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Those challenges as much as possible and that we can do planning around meeting.

R

Local needs and- and let's be clear I mean the challenges.

R

That you know are facing the northwest of our city. If you look at where.

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Neighborhood improvement areas are located, the investment it doesn't have.

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To wait, the northwest of our city is an area that already requires significant.

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Investment as many other nih do so you know, certainly that's a focus for our.

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Own strategy, we have shifted our strategy so that two-thirds of our.

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Investments are going to the inner suburbs and that's a strategy that that.

R

That we certainly would encourage other partners to engage in. Thank you. Thank.

C

You, sir, thank you mr. bratter, and now we have cancer laden. Thank you very much.

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And most of the a couple of my questions were actually asked by councillor wrong.

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Time but just on the the the oversight piece, there aren't many many tools, we'll.

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Have to ensure that we're meeting these contractual obligations as set out in.

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The community benefits agreement. So what value do we have by ensuring that these.

M

Committees have the right people asking the right questions. Well, I think that.

R

There's a lot to be said for transparency and for public reporting.

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And for a commitment to engage regularly with with the community and experts.

R

Around this file- and we have seen how, through the crosstown the kind of dna.

R

That you build around just having those expectations on the company and also.

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Building conversations that are about you know, everybody being part of the.

R

Solution goes a long way in terms of making this work, I think making those.

R

Making those expectations clear and making them part of the the expectations.

R

Of of woodbine is going to create the process that we need to create.

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Transparency and accountability, so I don't know about you, but I'm not a I'm.

M

Not an expert on on labor relations or or how how this sector responds to to to.

M

Their labor issues- and I would just be- is that one of the reasons why you think.

M

That labor council, that they should have a seat at that that table. So we.

R

Brought labor, we brought the suggestion forward to include labor in terms of the.

R

The oversight and certainly the the working tables, because we have seen that.

R

On the crosstown, labor has the experience in terms of what are the.

R

Needs how is it that we get young people into into training centers? How is it or.

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What are the kinds of wraparound supports that need to come from the community sector to make sure that a young person can make it from point a to.

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Point b and we feel you know, having worked with many different traded trades.

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Training centers that there's an understanding that there's a great.

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Demographic shift, that's happening, there's a great need to bring in young.

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People into a career in the trades- and I think that that is unique knowledge that.

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We're really going to need to just make this work practically. So, just as a just.

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As a problem-solving and good intelligence point of view, I think it's.

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Smart to include labor in this process. Thank you. Captain council, layton and.

C

Within it councillor thompson there, hello, I'm sorry, counselor davis go ahead.

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Question would you agree that child care would contribute to stability for.

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Current staff and new recruitment for expanded staff and towards employment.

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Equity, do you think that having childcare on-site, affordable.

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High-Quality would contribute to achieving those factors that happen to.

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Be in the employment and labor market plan conditions. That sounds right and I would also take us back to the wraparound.

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Supports piece that I mentioned earlier, you know if you are coming from a.

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Background where you face, you know significant, multiple barriers. There are.

R

A number of things that we have to be very deliberate around filling those.

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Needs and childcare, affordable housing, mental health supports these are really.

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Going to be the deal, the deal makers in terms of bringing in people who are far.

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From the shore, in terms of the kinds of opportunities that allows them to get.

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Ahead so child care, along with mental health, affordable housing, counseling.

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Programs, all of those are essential in any kind of model. That's going to help.

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Person facing multiple barriers get ahead, so I I think you're right. Thank.

C

You and then councillor thompson. Thank you very much. Mr. mehra, through you too,.

H

Mr. beretta, um you have obviously done work in the rexdale area in the past.

H

Sorry, yes, yes, and how long have you and united way been doing work in rec still.

H

I would say close any eras, 15 years 20 years, 30 years would say close to 50.

R

Years, but I we certainly, we certainly have recognized that there are unique.

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Challenges to the rexdale community that require it's no work additional one and.

H

So have you done work exclusively with respect to the united way of you.

H

Collaborated with the city, have you done partnership and so on? We include the.

R

Years we always worked in partnership for the city. One of the I think one of.

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The most important things we've done is to bring a community hub right and to.

R

The rexdale larry to councillor chris antes word right. That has been a real.

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Anchor for services in the high-needs community, so what I through you mr.

H

Mayor I submit to you that in 30 years things have happened in rexdale.

H

And it's in this area from a community services point of view, as we've gotten.

R

Ahead of the curve- and we still need to move forward.

H

Absolutely, but you would agree that things have happened. Yes, so if someone.

H

Were to issue a blank with sam and saying that nothing's happened in 30 years, would you agree with that? No, we wouldn't okay! Thank you. So I'm going to.

H

Move a couple of motions addressing the issues, as you pointed out in terms of.

H

Ensuring that labor is involved with this process and the reason why I'm.

H

Moving it because I think, as you've described a councillor layton, that there.

H

Is a level of expertise and a level of sophistication that they bring to help.

H

Collaborate with the community is that a good thing. Absolutely we have seen that.

R

On the crosstown, it's absolutely essential if we're gonna move forward.

H

Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. mayor, you wait because I have a couple.

C

Question three: if the others are all done and see it was councillor thompson.

C

Finished I apologize, it was just he probably is. Let me just do that then.

C

While he's doing what he's doing, if I may, I we've talked with councillor.

C

Thompson just now about labor representation on the on the community.

C

Benefits side of things, and you talked about the desirability of it. I accept.

C

All of that, what form has the labor representation taken on across town in.

C

Other words there's been, I, as I hear it, have been various people today saying we.

C

Should be represented there and I wasn't entirely sure when it was all said and done whether it was all of them are, some of them are one of them, but could you.

C

Tell me what you said: something had worked there. It had worked on crosstown.

C

Who's at the table or who's at how many tables that's a great question. Your.

R

Worship and there's layers to this so at the at the highest level, which is around.

R

Who has signed the agreement with between metrolinx and cross-links? The.

R

Toronto community benefits network with labor as a very important co-chair, has.

R

Been one of the signatories to that to that agreement, when you, when you go down.

R

To the accountability and implementation table, you see that toronto york region.

R

And labor council is the representative for labor, along with united way and.

R

Others, sitting down with cross-links and metro links to make sure that we are.

R

Meeting our targets and working together you get further down to construction.

R

Connections and some of the on-the-ground crunchy work of actually.

R

Making the construction connections pathway work and you get a combination.

R

Of toronto york region, labor council, as well as trades training, centers, so liuna.

R

183 eli, you know: yeah 5:06, the carpenters union, the iron workers union.

R

There are multiple locals that all have training centers that are part of the.

R

Conversation and our and are around the table around implementation, because I.

R

Think that they recognize that their shared value here, we cannot afford to.

R

Have a construction industry that is going to continue to grow over 10 years.

R

120,000 prospective new net jobs are required, those have to come from.

R

Somewhere and we have a lot of young people who, right now, income.

R

With 40 percent youth unemployment and we have to connect the dots better, I.

R

Think labor is an absolute essential partner in that that's helpful. Secondly,.

C

I suspect it isn't a relevant comparison, but I just want to ask anyway: has there.

C

Been any thought of the childcare, this is a bit different cuz. It's one.

C

Workplace, where is the crosstown project to spread out all across the city? Is.

C

There any has the bending down about that, or did it come up or has it you.

C

Know the child cares because again it's been a big focus of discussion here. This.

C

Afternoon, of course- and you know working with the city in the province united way.

R

Runs a program called career, navigator and career navigator, essentially.

R

Overlays the whole process of recruiting a young person from the community.

R

Getting them assessed getting into a pre-apprenticeship program, putting them.

R

In a trades, training, centers and overlays person-centered support spiel a.

R

Mental health child care, affordable, housing, whatever they are they're.

R

Tailored to young people's needs, childcare is one of those issues that.

R

Really has to be responsive to the situation that people are in and we look.

R

Forward to being part of the oversight and the working tables to identify what.

R

Is the best intervention for the people who are going to be employed as part of.

R

Woodbine, I use the same example as I would with.

R

Mental health say we have a young person who has a mental health challenge. I have.

R

A really hard time telling you right now: if the solution is, let's build a.

R

Hospital near woodbine, let's build a community agency, there would bind or.

R

Let's bring a worker, that's going to be ready somewhere to go and help that.

R

Young person in in woodbine on mental health issues, we don't know we need to.

R

Set up the process ahead of time wreck, it.

R

We are going to be dealing with in terms of population commit to resourcing those.

R

Needs and then figure out operationally what the best way is of doing that, and I.

R

Think that at this moment it's it's difficult for me to make an operational.

R

Decision without having all of the information in front of me, but I know.

R

For sure we're gonna need childcare, supports for the people who are going to.

R

Be there, thank you. Okay, oh sure, one more from council pass back. There just seems.

C

To be a little bit of confusion around the table on why you're here now it.

C

The position united way that a casino is, is an okay tool for economic development.

R

We are here to speak to the community benefits opportunities emerging out of.

R

This infrastructure project, so we have worked very hard on the eglinton.

R

Crosstown we're currently working with communities on the huron theriot line. We.

R

Are working with york region to identify potential projects? That's that's all.

C

Fine, I mean I can tell you, there's a big difference between a transit project and.

C

The spin-offs from that, and then you know it's quite different, so I'm surprised united way is here talking about the benefits community benefits of.

C

A casino I don't know whether maybe there's been a pivot at united way or.

C

They've thought of new well counselor. This was a decision by council and it's.

R

It's it's a decision, that's moving forward. We see a community that has high.

R

Needs and a community that's hungry, for economic opportunities, so you know if.

R

The community is asking to have a community benefits agreement and we are.

R

In a position to to work with the community to make that happen, then.

R

That's what we will do so: okay, so you're, okay to advocate for parachutes or soft.

C

Landings if this, if this in fact gets approved, that's why you're here.

R

I'm not sure I'm entirely following you counselor, but well I don't know he's.

C

Here and he's a member of the public and he's not only that an executive, the.

C

United way- and he is entitled to come here and comment, as is everybody else so.

C

I don't think we generally question people and whether alright, no I'll leave.

C

It at that, but I think I think you see my our concern yeah, so any other.

C

Questions for mr. bratter all right well, thank you very much. A very helpful.

C

Contribution, thank you so much next in on the list is mustafa abdi.

C

Good day, sir, thank you for your patience and you have three minutes and then I'm sure there may be a question or two twenty-five.

S

Years and have been working within the community for the last ten years, I'm.

S

Here to speak today about the upcoming developments in my neighborhood and the potential opportunity now impact, I emphasis the word potential, because, if.

S

It's done correctly, it can remove many barriers that the residents of rexdale.

S

Are faced with one in particular that I'm here to talk about today is.

S

Employment as someone who's worked in the community and has also experienced.

S

Firsthand employment and the lack of opportunity to meaningful employment is.

S

A huge issue in excel as a university graduate, I experienced all types of.

S

Barriers from postal code discrimination to simply not knowing the right people.

S

In the right place in the right position, I had had difficult time finding.

S

Full-Time employment and enough ended up going to alberta to start my career in.

S

The trades now when I went out there there was an opportunity that I've never.

S

Was never brought to me while I was here in toronto and that's the trades when I.

S

Came back to toronto and I said to myself: you know what there's all these.

S

Cranes, there's all these condos being built for these jobs and construction.

S

How come so many of the young guys and the young people in my community are not.

S

Working and then there's this different, I'm not just I'm not a special case. This.

S

Is continuously in my community too many people in my neighbourhood are told to.

S

Go to school, get an education and you should be fine. I did that sorted. A lot.

S

Of this, and they all had the same barriers- and this is what I hear every.

S

Day when I'm working in the community parents coming and asking, how can I help.

S

Their children find work, they're all post-secondary graduates, but they can't.

S

Break into their field of study now I know this is an issue all across the.

S

City, not just in tobago, however, we have an opportunity today.

S

Because we're talking about this woodbine development expansion that.

S

We've been talking about since 2008 or 2009.

S

And when I talked to the residents of queens play, which is literally right,.

S

Across from woodbine I had a mother come up to me and told me, her daughter has.

S

Graduated couldn't find a job, so she did research on her own went across the.

S

Woodbine marl and went to the local banks there and asked all the tellers.

S

Where they're from not one from rexdale, not one so in this, what we have today in.

S

Front of us is a good start. We talked about targets, it's 40%.

S

Maybe that's bump it up a little bit to 60%. We talked about construction, but.

S

Then there's this term that's being used, use all reasonable commercial efforts.

S

Why can't we not commit to the 10% and take that right out of there? The one.

S

Thing that I don't see in here is the professional administrative and.

S

Technical jobs, why can't we have a target for those now? I know this is a.

S

Start and it's better than what we had yesterday.

S

But again, this is this is where I believe we should have more consultation.

S

Done with the community and ensure that there's community representation at the.

S

Table to ensure that these tweaks and these documents can be done. Thank you.

C

Thank you very much, yes, sir. So we have some questions for you.

C

Starting with conservation, thank you very much. Mr. abney, thanks for coming.

M

Thank you for coming here today, just just to make it clear. You're, you're.

M

Coming from the community down to direct city council or request city council,.

M

That in in order for the community to accept this proposal,.

M

We need to see real changes to this community benefit agreement so that we.

M

See 60% local employment. So yes, because so to be completely honest when I talked.

S

To the community members, no one is really interested in seeing a casino.

S

Being built, there's a lot of negative stuff that come with a casino, so we have.

S

To ensure that the benefit outweighs the negative impacts, 60% sounds a good.

S

Benefit to me, it's a start, so you acknowledge that like there there will.

M

Be significant impacts to the community. The price of admission then.

M

For this for your community to say, yes, we will shoulder these additional costs.

M

But you need to you need to show us that there's some benefit to us and that.

M

Looks like 60%, local employment, 60%, full-time employment and, if I can add to.

S

That to remove the use of all reasonable commercial efforts to just 10%.

M

Construction, trade, which would essentially make that 10%, could be a a.

M

2% or a 0% essentially exactly thank you very much.

M

Councillor davis, you probably don't know the actual numbers, but would it surprise.

B

You that you are definitely in ward one. The second worst served in terms of the.

B

Amount of childcare available in the subsidies available, so I wouldn't it.

S

Would it would surprise me, but, to be honest, I'm I'm coming from a family of.

S

12, where my mom stayed home, so we really weren't looking at child care, but I.

S

Wouldn't be surprised, okay, and is it your view that the women who are working.

B

Or trying to work in your community need childcare, that's affordable to be able.

B

To go out and participate in the labor market. I definitely agree with that.

B

Yeah and that it would help this community if this project were to.

B

Include childcare: well, if it didn't include childcare, then it wouldn't help.

S

Us at all right, so I definitely agree with your statement. Okay, thank you.

C

Councillor hoff, a deputy mayor, thank you, mara, tory and mr. abdi. I'm sorry, I'm.

F

Hiding over here, thank you for speaking to us. If I recall correctly, you came to.

F

The topical york community council, when we were looking at the plan of subdivision- and you mentioned a term today, part of me postal code,.

F

Discrimination yeah, and I remember I think I remember you- told a story about.

F

A resume and using a mississauga address. I remembered that and I wondered if you.

F

Could just repeat that and your sentiment about.

F

About where you lived and what that meant about getting a job.

S

So yeah, the story I gave was when I was straight out of university applied for.

S

One job with where I live using the my address. I didn't hear anything back.

S

I applied again just for just to see what happens with my aunt's address, who.

S

Lives in mississauga and I got an interview with the same resume, so I.

S

Don't know, but I feel that that's supposed to quote discrimination, the one.

F

Thought I have, though, is: would you say that this is limited to the neighborhood.

F

You live in, or there might be other parts of the city that suffer the same.

F

The same sentiment because of where they live or the near the street name.

F

Employers are looking over their resumes. I definitely would agree to that. There's.

S

Not just north of tobiko, but because we're talking about the development in.

S

North etobicoke, I'm talking about my experience, is dirty. Thank you. That's the.

C

Wrong time, thank you very much. Mr. mayor mostafa, you mentioned that if the the.

O

Cba did not include childcare. It's not going to help the local communities are.

O

Correct, yes, and the cba also does not necessarily endorse a living wage.

O

Without a living wage, as the cvaa helped, the local community know, I also believe.

S

That the living wage should be included in there. I, when I was mentioning just a.

S

Few points is because I no longer had three minutes, so I just try to put in as.

S

Much as I could and let me ask you a few more questions if the cba right now does.

O

Not mention labor peace or carjack new neutrality. Will it help the local.

O

Community in terms of securing good unionized jobs. Well, if there is, if.

S

There's no one representing the workers, then, as history shows, then it won't be.

S

Good jobs and if the cba does not give us very clear, full-time targets on.

O

Hitting the 60 percent, is it going to help the local community.

S

I believe all targets should be specified clearly, okay and if the, if the.

O

Cba does not have a clear, regular public and transport, a transparent, transparent.

O

Accounting will it help the local community? Well, that's.

S

Because if we talk about all this and put it on paper, but there's no.

S

Accountability then it's not gonna go anywhere so right now it does not.

O

Include any of those yes, so, like I said it's a good start, but there's a lot of.

S

Things that could be fixed and do you think that we'll be able to fix it.

O

Between now and the time that council needs to, it needs to report back to.

O

Council in july, I'm hopeful that that they will taking the taken that, what's.

S

Been said today, if they take back recommendations, then I'm hopeful that.

S

They will and what would it take for for all those criterias to make it into the.

O

Cba, what would it take to take labor community? Well, yes, everybody would and.

O

The proponents working together getting it done, they would yes, I believe that.

S

Need needs to be more space for labor and community at the table in order to.

S

Meet that deadline right now, labor is not at the table. Yes, so they need to be.

S

At the table, okay, thank you very much. Thank you, council wong time other.

C

Members wishing to okay councillor chris andy, thank you mr. mayor and and thank.

D

You most awful for kind of for coming in so you said earlier they that well, first.

D

Of all, are you in favor of this development? I am in favor if it's done.

S

Correctly, yes, okay and you're, in favor of it because of the jobs potential jobs.

D

That could be created here because of the potential opportunities that will.

S

Bring directly to my neighborhood and the surrounding neighborhoods, okay and.

D

You and you, you recognize that that you know you need the right circumstances in.

D

Order to attract development and and one of those ingredients and and the.

D

Catalyst that would drive to is the driving force of force moving. This thing.

D

Forward is the expanded gaming at which council approved conditionally back in.

D

2015 correct yes, I understand that, however, without the conditions being met.

S

Then I don't think it would. Yes absolutely.

D

So this is why council set those 21 conditions and- and we know that you and.

D

Others negotiated and sat down and met with staff and.

D

And I believe we have a strong framework to start with right now correct. We have.

S

We have a start. We just need to tweak a little bit and.

S

Go back to the drawing board, but I, but this is a good start. However, there's.

S

Always room for improvement agreed all right and you live in ward 2.

D

Correct, yes, thank you. Thank you very much. Other questions of the sap unit did.

C

Well, thank you very much mr. abdi, for very thoughtful presentation. I think we.

C

Have two more mr. kusa baker? Mr. baker, here.

C

Thank you for your patience. Mr. baker,.

F

Nors, please go ahead good afternoon: local councillors and.

F

Executive committee, I'd like to start off by thanking city staff, local.

F

Councillors, my preferred and distinct interesante for your continued support.

F

In ensuring responsible, responsible development, as part of that would bind.

F

Casino expansion, the staff report on the eight community benefits conditions set.

F

In 2015 steers us on the right track, however, I must say that there's still.

F

Some work to do to ensure that we mitigate the health, social and economic.

F

Risks that are involved with this expansion of gaming tcb n, a labor community coalition of over 80 organizations, including cored.

F

Have been organizing in the local area since the woodbine live development in.

F

2007 during this time, we have seen a significant drop in employment.

F

Opportunities which has resulted in residents having to travel further to.

F

Access work from taken out from cities of toronto stats from 2009 to 2014 the.

F

Area of rec still seen a significant drop in employment opportunities by a.

F

Specific drop of eight point: nine percent- this is the highest and any.

F

Other area in its local vicinity with this casino expansion brings in which.

F

Includes non-gaming employment opportunities brings an opportunity for.

F

Local area resident to not only secure a job in their neighborhood but also contribute to the sustained economic development to the.

F

Local area: this is why it is important that the community needs are addressed.

F

Currently, what we have here is a framework for a local employment and procurement agreement. What additional benefits the local community of this.

F

Development bring other than limited access to this space. Many jurisdictions.

F

Across north america, where community benefits agreements have been signed.

F

Include an expensive and wand, wide range of community benefits provided by the.

F

Developer, including job training for local residents, community centers sports.

F

And entertainment and recreational facilities, community grocery stores and.

F

Public spaces like parks: this is where the current cba framework falls short.

F

The city needs to create a stronger community benefits agreement that is.

F

Based on the rex, dales, real and quantifiable needs the most pronounced.

F

Of which include the need for more jobs for local people and also in the current.

F

Agreement, the jobs that provide living wages to address the low income and very.

F

Low income circumstances of rex tell families and tackle child poverty in a.

F

Meaningful way, the needful childcare for workers within the this proposed city.

F

Within a city, and that will sync up with construction schedules and once the.

F

Developments are built, operate, rung round the clock, the need for additional.

F

Supports and investment that will help the community adapt and can cope with.

F

Additional pressures from the development and support the development.

F

Of a strong local workforce, this includes things like creating a child.

F

Care and scholarship opportunities that many of our residents have explored.

F

Today, thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. baker are there questions of the.

C

Deputy did you have your hand up there? Consolation? Yes, yes, thank you very much.

M

I'm going to this will be very brief, just very quickly, so where would you.

M

Like to see, and where do you think, we really need to see change happen in the.

M

Community benefits agreement for the tc bn and, more importantly, the local.

M

Community to be satisfied that they're getting the.

M

Getting an appropriate benefit for shouldering this burden. Well, I think I.

F

Want to, I want to start out by the framing of this, because, right now, what.

F

We have is a local employment and procurement agreement. We actually don't.

F

Have a community benefits agreement? There is nothing within this framework.

F

That actually provides any additional community benefits to the local area, so.

F

I think we need to start with that, but in terms of what we need to include to.

F

Ensure that this is actual community benefits agreement would be a living.

F

Wage, so not only are we focused on hard targets for the jobs, but what are the.

F

Quality of jobs that are there so we're actually a living wage want to ensure.

F

That there's that the community is also at the table not only overseeing the.

F

Committee, but also at the employment and labor market table, we have four in-house.

F

Unions that currently represent workers at the site. How is it that these four.

F

Unions, don't have any representation around the employment and labor market.

F

Plan, so that would be another thing that would be additional another thing to also include as part of a community.

F

Benefits agreement would be supports and investment that go directly from the.

F

Developer into the local community to mitigate the risks around social, mental.

F

And economic that risk that many health reports provide okay. Thank you thanks.

C

Council aiden and any other questions to mr. baker, otherwise I'll. Thank you very.

C

Much again, sir, thank you that that is the last deputation, so that would then.

C

Bring us to questions of staff and I'll start with members that are not on the.

C

Committee, but are visiting with us today who have questions of staff counselor.

C

Layton, yes, thank you very much. These questions are directed to the medical.

M

Officer of health in in 2013, the medical medical officer of health report warned.

M

That a casino could cause an increase in problem gambling. Is this consistent with.

M

Your findings through the chair, the 2012 review that you asked us to provide.

B

Indicated that proximity to gambling is associated with problem gambling, so we.

M

Would see an increase in problem gambling in the areas around a casino so.

B

Our report anticipated that you would see increased problem gambling.

B

In proximity, so accessibility and availability, yes and 2012, the the.

M

Medical officer of health reported that an ontario study of regional variations.

M

And access to gambling reported that problem gambling is modestly, but.

M

Significantly associated with proximity to casino and race tracks, with slot.

M

Facilities as this as your current thinking, that's maintained, so we did an.

B

Additional review in 2015 and reported on that the same finding that proximity.

B

Does increase problem gambling and our position is that in both cases we didn't.

B

Recommend expansion. The same report said that people who experience higher rates.

M

People who report it as being having a problem, gam problem with gambling.

M

Experience higher rates of health problems, financial problems and an increased consideration of suicide. Is that correct so through the chair? It is.

B

Correct that the health impacts from gambling include suicide, ideation, which.

B

Is thoughts or completion mental health depression as well as co addictions such.

B

As alcohol or gambling, and how much more common was that those those.

M

Considerations of suicide in the people with prowl with problem gamblers, so the.

B

The issue is that the baseline varies depending on studies and locations in.

B

Some cases you're looking at a new facility, so the baseline is zero in some.

B

Case you should looking at expansion, but the issue is that proximity to gambling.

B

Does increase health increase health risk for those issues that I mentioned.

M

So I think you mentioned this just now, but are there specific demographics that.

M

Are more susceptible to problem gambling, so the literature in both of the studies.

B

That we looked at showed that low-income, males and certain racial groups are a.

B

Greater risk and in in 2012, the moh, couldn't recommended some conditions to.

M

Be placed on the casino are those conditions within the current.

M

Recommendations that the city is moving forward with so given the.

B

The decision to move forward with expansion, our role became one of.

B

Providing advice on mitigation measures, so those mitigation measures were.

B

Provided some of them not all are within the conditions that are in the report.

B

Before you, so can you tell us which conditions are not 24 hours? Operation is.

B

One of the main ones, the others, relate to on-site brochure, on-site promotions,.

B

Such as messaging on machines or availability of electronic gambling so.

B

There's a lot of other detailed ones related to the on-site support, but the.

B

Biggest issue was opening 24 hours, so you might not be able to report on this.

M

But a report that I believe camh and the medical officer of health did was there.

M

They had a percentage of casino revenue that comes from problem gambling. Do you.

M

Know what that is so in ontario it's about 24 percent, so 24 percent of the.

M

Income being brought in by a casino is from people with gambling addictions.

B

It's through folks who are gambling in that casino, so your recommendation is.

M

Not is is that the city not change its position and, in fact, maintain its it.

M

With no expansion at woodbine or 2012 and 2015 reports both had the same.

B

Position, which is because of the increased health risk by proximity to.

B

Gambling that we didn't support the decision, however, when council made its.

B

Decision to go for it with expansion, our role changed to one providing a list of.

B

Measures that would help mitigate the health risk fair enough.

M

So we had this and this I have no more questions for the medical officer of.

M

Health- I guess this would be for the acting city manager. There was a request.

M

In the 2015 council decision that looked to try to get some idea of what the.

M

Costs associated with addition with the casino would be to the city.

M

Additional policing, additional sofa, surfer social service costs so that we.

M

Could address them in the agreement with the operator? Do we have we quantified.

M

What that cost will be no staffer undertaking some additional.

B

Work but we don't, I don't believe any of those numbers yet so wait a second. So we.

M

Don't have those numbers yet so we're voting to accept something that we don't know as the financial implications will be just just to be clear. We don't know.

M

What the cost will be associated with the casino, the so staffs? There was a.

B

Direction in 2015 city staff started to review the initial.

B

Assessment in 2015 it was, there were no additional incremental costs identified.

B

And right now it's staffs opinion that we need some further. We need further.

A

Numbers and a concrete understanding of the full build-out before we can come.

O

Back with those incremental costs, thank you thank you. We have just oh, I know who.

C

Else wants to be on the less councillor for it councillor for sanity, councillor.

C

Davis and council wants half so next is and councillor holiday. So deputy mayor.

C

Holiday, so we've now got the councillor fort. I thank you very much. Mr. mayor and.

P

Through you to the appropriate staff member so just in general to start off.

P

And isn't of your opinion that council's conditions that were set out in 2015.

P

Have come to this committee satisfied through the chair? Yes, it's a staffs.

B

Opinion that the 21 conditions have been met, okay and, furthermore, than that.

P

There's been some dialogue in the committee about the conditions and and.

P

Adding they're taking away some of the conditions more so adding on page 13 of.

P

Your report half way down under city council consideration of the 21.

P

Conditions, you say that so as report to say, council 2015 any say.

P

Council withdrawal of the resolution under this regulation at this time must.

P

Be in good faith and explicitly linked to the failure that the service provider.

P

To meet the city's condition, additional conditions cannot be added at.

P

This time, so, if there were stuff changed to the agreement, how would that affect.

P

Us moving forward well, as the report indicates in 2015, there was a.

N

Description of the process the council was embarking on and by virtue of the.

N

Provincial regulation, we have an opportunity council had an opportunity.

N

To consent at the start of the process, what we worked out was a process where.

N

Council consented with conditions, and at that time council was advised that when.

N

Staff reported back with respect to you know the end of the process and the.

N

Conversations of the proponent council would not be free at that time to add.

N

Further conditions, it would have to limit its consideration to whether or.

N

Not the conditions that had previously set had been met, or not right so to be.

P

Very clear at this point through you, mr. mayor, not this is not an opportunity to.

P

Be changing the conditions or adding it's not an opportunity to add.

N

Conditions all right, what could be the ramifications of council were well as.

N

Noted in the report there's concerns about this process that council act in.

N

Good faith that nobody had a complaint against the city that it is somehow.

N

Violated the good faith terms of the process and what that really comes down.

N

To is that in 2015 a list of conditions was established, those conditions were.

N

Communicated to all the potential proponents responding to the provinces.

N

Rfp and subsequently, discussions and presentations were held with those.

N

Proponents, so what is coming back is the result of a response to the conditions.

N

That were set at that time and, and the staff recommendation is, is that we then.

N

You know consider those conditions on the response to them. Okay, thank you very.

P

Much I like to direct the question through you, mr. mayor specifically, to.

P

The community benefits agreement- and I know staff has worked on this.

P

Extensively, one is staffs, do you the staff believe.

P

This is a strong community benefits agreement for the people in the.

P

Northwest in the city of toronto, through you, mr. mayor, the approach to the.

T

Community benefits agreement was to achieve the best outcomes for the local.

T

Community and something that was achievable and attainable through the.

T

Proponent, this is new territory. We have not had community benefits agreement.

T

Similar to this magnitude before so, it is new territory. The targets that are.

T

Are recommended are beyond what we've seen in any previous agreements, and we.

T

Believe we pushed hard committee and council may direct us to look again but.

T

We feel that we've put forward reasonable, hard, measurable targets in.

T

The cba okay and you know what one of the biggest things that I have heard.

P

There's a local councillor and I know staff have I know mr. bronzer has been a.

P

Member of those meetings is a seat at the table. In your recommendations, do you.

P

Believe that the local community will have a seat and does have a seat at the.

P

Table moving forward, the steering committee, which is the key oversight.

T

Mechanism actually contains two seats for local residents, as well as a seat.

T

For the local college and perhaps most importantly, a seat for toronto community.

T

Benefits network and then ikenson foundation and united way round out the.

T

Membership right and last question through you to miss mayor to staff is.

P

The revenues being brought back into funneling back into.

P

Local community coming into the city, I should say specifically in surprise.

P

About 15 million dollars of new revenue, and is it of your opinion that somebody.

P

Some of those revenues can filter through to the local community for.

P

Improvement such as community, you know community centers, community space.

P

Childcare after you, mr. mayor, so one of the directions that one of the.

R

Recommendations speaks to staff coming back once we understand the full revenue.

B

Stream that we come back with an options for looking at increment how to allocate.

B

That incremental revenue and couldn't look looking at some sort of community.

B

Fund. Thank you mr. mayor. Thank you council for councillor.

C

Chrysanthus, it was nice, yes, thank you, mr. mayor, so to the appropriate staff.

D

First of all, I just heard from through councillor for questioning that staff.

D

Responded that all the 21 conditions were met, so we heard all the deputies.

D

This afternoon, I think the common denominator that we we have is that.

D

Everyone essentially indicated that there is room for improvement in certain.

D

Areas potentially in the living wage area and in daycare, I also would like to.

D

As part of that question asked if daycare itself was a topic of discussion.

D

During your meetings with with agencies and and other individuals with respect.

D

To community benefits in a cba agreement through you, mr. mayor, through the.

T

Consultations yesterday care child care and, more specifically, workplace child.

T

Care was raised a number of times, okay and in terms of what you heard this.

D

Afternoon for the last couple of hours and with respect to the point of room.

D

For improvement, how would you respond to that? Because I also heard you say that.

D

You negotiated, you know what might be considered a precedent-setting agreement.

T

Staff undertook to negotiate within the scope of the 21 conditions established.

T

By council in 2015, we had no mandate to negotiate beyond that scope, childcare.

T

Was not within the original scope of the 21 conditions? We did mention it in the.

T

Body of the report, along with a number of other potential benefits. But all.

T

Clarifying that they were outside of the original scope, okay,.

D

We've you've negotiated community benefits agreement in the past. The.

D

Number of them correct. I don't believe this is the first community public.

T

Community benefits agreement being brought to this council because it was.

T

Council, who established the requirement for this community benefit agreement.

T

Coming forward, okay, thank you with respect to, through jobs at woodbine. How.

D

Many current jobs are there at woodbine racetrack right now in terms of.

T

Headcount 723, I believe, and that translates to 579 full-time equivalent.

T

Positions, that's a total at the woodbine racetrack. That's the the total.

T

Employment at this point in the in the the gaming facility, I'm talking about.

D

Woodbine as a whole, several thousand so town so yeah, I heard upwards of seven.

D

Thousand, roughly, would that be correct? Okay, so our development of this of this.

D

Nature would would help sustain the current jobs that are there, yes and how.

D

Many in in terms of attracting new new jobs, as a result of not just expanded.

D

Gaming, but what could come above and beyond the gaming itself, so our report.

F

Indicates that we expect ignoring the construction period of time, but on an.

I

Ongoing basis about 1,600 net new jobs to the economy of the region, there'd be.

I

Over twice that in terms of new jobs at the location itself, but some of those.

T

Jobs will reflect the spending there instead of the spending somewhere else.

E

Okay, then, would you agree that that moving forward with with not only with.

D

The expanded gaming, but the potential new development that can result because.

D

Of that that that could create a stronger or a strong business case for.

D

Further investment, both in transit and in housing, specifically the potential.

D

Extension of the finch west, lrt that currently terminates at humber college.

D

So the potential expansion of that down to woodbine and then looping around to.

D

To the airport, possibly and maybe some further investment in revitalization.

D

With respect to our own toronto community housing sites, so I'm not a.

O

Transportation expert I'll ask somebody on the other side of the room dines for.

D

That certainly we're we're we're aware of discussions between major players up.

E

In north etobicoke, humber college, the hospital woodbine right and others who.

E

Are very much engaged in seeing the transit that's plan to humber college.

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Get extended so to include this site and eventually to.

C

The airport that was the last question thanks, that's fine! Thank you. Amir.

C

Councillor davis, isn't it the case that actually this corporation will decide.

B

Whether or not the conditions have been met when council approves it yeah. Well, that's the role of counsel. At this point.

N

Is to look at the responses to the conditions and determine whether there.

N

They've been met, so we've received staff opinion about whether or not those.

B

Conditions have been met, but it's up to us to determine whether or not they have.

B

Been met, that is the purpose of the report. Yes, but the important point to be.

N

Made is is that it is doing that evaluating the response to the condition.

N

The concern is not imposing new conditions. I understand that. So I see a.

B

Term sheet here that under attachment one and the employment labor market plan.

B

Which attack discusses conditions, 14 and 15? And it says the purpose of the.

B

Employment and labor market plan that we had they have to satisfy us about, has.

B

Three streams: stability of current staff, expanding employment or new recruitment.

B

And employment equity, and I don't know whether I would ask the city manager. I.

B

Could ask toronto employment and social services, probably anyone mr. brill.

B

Injure, don't you believe that access to childcare has always been it will.

B

Continue to be fundamental to maintaining stability of curtin and.

B

Staff and recruiting new staff and access to the labor market has that not.

B

Always been fundamental to achieving those things through the chair, there are.

T

Many considerations that are fundamental to achieving those things, including.

T

Childcare, okay, doesn't put them in scope under the 21.

T

Conditions, oh well, I just heard that the scope is something that we will decide.

B

And I guess, if I were to ask toronto employment and social services, isn't the.

B

The most challenging condition to get people to the labor market that you see.

B

Is being able to access job fair, one of them for sure.

B

Through the chair, yes, I would agree that access to childcare is a challenge we do.

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Work very closely with children's services to access our childcare subsidy.

Q

We also use our own funds under the o, w act to gain priority access to childcare.

L

For ontario works participants great. I wonder if I could ask miss long ere. We.

B

Have many examples of how employers support childcare from providing.

B

Operating money to capital, money and a combination of those, in fact, we have a.

B

Workplace childcare on-site here is that not the case both in the private and the.

B

Public sector that are supported in different ways through you, mr. chair, I.

B

Can't, unfortunately, speak to the detail around private employer provision right at the moment, though, I can get the information.

B

For the counselor, the city of toronto operates directly. Child cares. Those.

B

Child cares are available to their employees and are also available to.

B

Other members of the public there's a child care in this building, in which the.

B

City supports, as the employer supports that child care center to give priority.

B

To those employees and it allows both workplace parents as well as access from.

B

The public as well is that not the case at st. lawrence at ord at other places,.

B

In the city I counselor would describe those as agencies with.

B

Whom we have service contracts who offer childcare to their employee, but they're.

B

Examples of workplace support and it's possible that, in order to maintain.

B

Employment stability, in order to ensure new recruitment and in order to ensure.

B

Employment equity in this labor employment labor market plan. We could.

B

Ask for some level of support for childcare to ensure that there's greater.

B

Access for the 5,000 employees that are expected and finally, maybe that's to.

B

Rhetorical there's at least you you asked question 400. Would you not agree.

B

That north etobicoke is one of the poorest served communities in the city.

B

In terms of access to childcare, are you mr. chair, at the present time, ward 2 is.

B

Identified as a high priority for childcare capital expansion, excuse me.

B

Expansion at the present time, they have only enough space to serve 20 to 30% of.

B

The children who are living in low-income finn and a wait list of.

B

Hundred you counselor davis thanks counselor wong cat. Thank you very much.

O

Mr. mayor, I just want to come back to the questions regarding public health.

O

You you said that that the most likely individuals that will become clients and.

O

Users of the casino will be low-income males. You started to talk about other.

O

Communities at risk, including racialized groups, racial groups, can you be more.

O

Specific which racial groups threw the chair. There were comments specifically.

B

Made that our earlier reports that were done back in 2012 did show an.

B

Association with a sense that there would be higher use amongst those we saw.

B

Lower income young males with respect to racialized groups, I'm.

B

Not sure what styles or turn it over to my colleague here sure there are some.

B

Studies that show among indigenous populations higher risk. Sorry sorry can.

B

You just say that again, so among indigenous populations are showing up in.

B

Some studies, but overall the bigger risk was for males, comma and low-income. Okay.

O

Thank you very much and because we don't have the associated cost, that will that.

O

Will most likely rise because we'll have some they if you're going to expand the.

O

Facility will have some expanded needs for social servicing and policing.

O

We don't have those costs before us today that work is still to be carried.

O

Out but we do have a sense, we already have a sense of what the new revenues.

O

Will be, can you give us a guess, an estimate on whether or not these.

O

Expanded service costs will be met by the expected new revenues. Is there a way.

O

That you can take a take a stab at it now or if you can't just say you just.

O

Don't have the information you, you won't guess through the chair? No, we don't have.

T

The information I would, if you're asking for a complete guesstimate assume that.

T

Increased revenues would exceed increase costs. We simply don't have the data to.

T

Provide information on increased cost; okay, and when you complete that that.

O

Work and that data about the increase cost for the social services and those.

O

Programs will you take into consideration the service deficits that.

O

Are already in existence in that neighborhood because it's been brought.

O

Up several times that the area's already underserved and they need social.

O

Services and supports today so through the mayor that that work of.

T

Understanding what the service deficits are is, in fact ongoing and stop would.

T

Continue to report out on those service deficits, regardless of a casino.

T

Development or not so yes, we will continue to report.

T

That you will continue to report that, but but will we see that report before.

O

We have the the final bullet on council. Well, we get a sense of whether or not.

O

This revenues, the social impacts- are we going to be able to cost recovery? Will.

O

It be net neutral. No, we will not have those numbers before the april council.

T

Meeting: okay, thank you and with respect to the that targets and the hiring.

O

Targets, full-time employment. I noticed that in the report is it generally.

O

Speaks to food and service, but are those targets do they extend to management.

O

Jobs, professional services, administrative services- are those.

O

Full-Time targets only for food and beverage opportunities, no, they would be.

T

Applied throughout the organization, and is there a way to create an expectation.

O

That perhaps 50% of the of those 60% of those full time jobs will be this.

O

Category or this category, through the employment and labor market working.

T

Group we would look to identify those categories so that we have proper.

T

Tracking and reporting, and can I just come back to the the first comment about.

O

The the staffs, the staff being satisfied with the the the conditions being met.

O

That the process is that if this committee adopts that it goes the city.

O

Council of city council adopts the recommendations that all conditions have.

O

Been met, then we have there's no ability to layer on. Anything else. Is that.

O

Correct, so if childcare is not there, it, then it.

O

Will not be there, we will not be able to insert new conditions, will not be able.

O

To insert a new condition into the cba, so we can insert living wage. We cannot.

O

Insert labor peace agreements, we cannot insert mandatory regular quarterly.

O

Targets and report outs is that correct through the chair, you can't insert a new.

T

Condition beyond the 21. A couple of the points you just mentioned are.

T

Modifications of existing 20 and the 21 conditions- yes, there can be.

T

Clarification or modifications to something that's already included in the.

T

21 conditions: okay, thank you very much. Counselor a deputy mayor holiday, face.

F

Thank you mara, tory. I think my first question will be to the solicitor today.

F

We heard some advocacy for things, including an employer paid day care and.

F

Increases to the wage to what's called a living wage and they strike me as.

F

Awfully centered towards the employees of the casino, whether or not they're,.

F

From the local area, the employees as a whole, I wondered if the solicitor could.

F

Comment on the appropriateness of the city entering those types of discussions.

F

Given that, maybe they belong at a negotiating table or is a discussion.

F

Between the employer and the union themselves- and they strike me as.

F

Something different than what we're talking about with respect to a community benefit. Well, this is obviously an unusual circumstance. I mean you're.

N

Right in general, we would not insert ourselves into an employment.

N

Relationship under party are there any cautions or risks of entering that type.

F

Of detailed discussion at this table, given the community benefits agreement.

F

Is outward focused at the area? Is the area surrounding this this site? Well, I.

N

Think, probably that's something I want to get the benefit of my employment law.

N

Colleagues to comment on again I mean the the issue for me primarily right now,.

N

Is this distinction between new conditions and a response to a condition.

N

That council has set. Thank you. My next question would be, I guess, staff from.

F

Children's services, or, if there's someone representing them here, we have.

F

Not had a lot of benefit of analysis on the notion.

F

Of a daycare being put on site, I wonder if staff could provide some comment with.

F

With respect to the suitability of the site, I mean, I know it's under a final.

F

Approach path of the airport, just the fact that it's a casino operation, you.

F

Know is that compatible with the installation of a childcare center and.

F

You know how big would it have to be and does that fit? You know our plans to.

F

Serve the community in general, not just this employment site. You, mr. chair.

B

Council has endorsed a growth and capital strategy which directs where we.

B

Will be expanding in terms of how large an on-site childcare would need to be. It.

B

Would depend very much on the number of employees and the number of hours people.

B

Are working in which shifts they're working, so I can't comment on that in.

B

Relation to the suitability of locating a childcare in a casino.

B

The province of ontario has very clear legislation and regulation in regards to.

B

The licensing of a childcare- and I would be anticipating that they would be.

B

Licensing their childcare would be required to meet all of those.

B

Requirements, so that's that's all. I would say at this point in time not.

B

Having full details on the design or the setup of the the property and the.

B

Resources there from what you know, would it be a practical, endeavor or would or.

F

We would we best spend our efforts on some other ways to serve this particular.

F

Concern that was brought up through this chair. I think it would be safe to say.

B

We'd have to study it further. It really would depend on where they located it.

B

Within the casino, what protections they had etc, so it's really, I would think.

J

It's too early to determine that we would have to look at it a little more.

B

Fully, would you be able to comment on whether or not it offers benefit to the.

F

Community versus benefit to the employees, depending on where it's such.

B

Our that we would have to definitely provide probably benefits to.

B

The employees you'd have to survey them to understand how many of those employees would take advantage of a dare care located within the working facility.

B

In terms of the community, we'd have to do some analysis and consult with the.

B

Community, if that's the right location for them without undertaking that work.

B

So before we decide on locating a daycare somewhere, there's a lot of.

B

Factors that we have to review, we haven't had an opportunity to take all.

B

That into account for this particular site. Thank you. I think my final question.

F

Is for the city manager's office? There's a map in the report that describes what.

F

Is the local area? I know wonder if you could provide some comment on how you.

F

Analyzed and created that area, it's a very distinct boundary. I guess people.

F

Have referred to it as rexdale and there's probably a lot of different versions of that. But we do have a working map and if somebody could offer.

F

Some comment on on how that map was created where the lines fell. There were.

T

A number of factors looked at. We also raised the question with the local.

T

Community the boundaries reflect the federal riding in that part of town. It.

T

Also includes a number of neighborhood improvement areas identified by council.

F

Thank you. Thank you, deputy mayor holiday. So are there any other members of.

C

Council not on the committee that want to ask questions that happen. I think that pretty well exhausts that list, so I only have one at the moment a member of.

C

The committee- that's deputy, mayor barlow, who wants to to ask questions, so we can.

C

Proceed with that and see who else wants to volunteer? So this is the first.

J

Toronto community benefits agreement that we have, but we have agreements in.

J

Other projects, for example, lawrence heights, is that correct.

J

Not community benefits agreement but employments with apprenticeships targets. We have other ones through through the chair. Yes,.

T

Working with toronto, community housing there's a.

J

Percentage of employees that I have to be employed, as fact they pioneered the.

T

Employment related community benefit payment and have we heard through this.

J

Experience that one of the most challenging things to get vulnerable.

J

Youth involved, especially women, is childcare. Have we heard that from our.

J

Experience that has been raised as a primary barrier to accessing those.

T

Programs, so if that is a barrier, how do we fulfill a condition, knowing that we.

J

Have targets to meet to meet and there's no way to address the biggest challenge.

J

To fulfill those targets with our new partner at the table through the chair.

T

There are many barriers to accessing employment. Childcare is a key one for.

T

Many housing is also a key barrier for others. There are other barriers, no.

T

Employment labor plan, but it is, it is a chance every night. It is a challenge. It.

T

Is a significant challenge, so council could take that in and ensure that in.

J

Order to meet the targets that we're setting ourselves right here we could.

J

Address that, in order to fully fulfill to ensure that we have some security and.

J

Fulfilling those targets- correct that is correct,.

T

It remains outside of the twin okay, so to planning I mean, I have three big.

J

Developments in my area, all of them I requested a daycare. Would it be a good.

J

Planning practice giving what's happening in this area with the amount.

J

Of employment coming and development coming that we have daycare in this area.

E

From through the through the mayor from an overall perspective, yes, there are.

E

Considerations that are unique to the site. It's been noted, for example, with.

B

The nef noise contour being extreme in this location, there is another portion.

E

Of the site, that's slated for residential development. Later there may.

E

Be that is outside of the nef that could be.

E

In the future, a more appropriate location for us, but there's definitely a.

J

Conversation that should happen around child care. Yes, in a planning perspective,.

J

To have a good community to serve the residents that are coming in. That.

J

Residential part, and also what we're dealing right here in front of us to.

J

Develop and create good employment on the site. This is something that should.

J

Have done both from a living and working point of view, yes, and as as, even if for.

J

Some people that are not interpreting this as a condition given that this is a.

J

New relationship that we're having with a good partner, you would just assume.

J

That this new partner that were bringing to the table would actually be willing.

J

To develop this project this community, with something that everybody agrees.

J

Would be in addition to the community at large, the city and the employees? I can't.

E

I can't speculate on their on their interest in this topic. That's okay! I.

J

Want to talk about reporting, so one of the things that I hear about these.

J

Agreements in regent park and lawrence heights, and so on, it's also making sure.

J

That we are getting the youth that we should, that needed the most and we're.

J

Getting those numbers- so I heard here that we're not gonna get a report for.

J

Two years, so how do we make? How are we gonna make sure that these targets are.

J

On the way to being met through the chair, I think I think, there's some.

T

Confusion over who's getting reporting the the report outlines that there would.

T

Be a staff report to council on an annual basis regarding achievement of.

T

Targets there will also be quarterly reports in some cases, monthly reports.

T

Through the employment and labor market working group, those reports that regular.

T

Quarterly reporting will flow to the steering committees so that, where the.

T

Community is sitting so the community will receive those reports on.

T

Less than a quarterly basis, okay, thank you. Those are my questions. Thank you.

C

Constable, okay, counselor digiorgio. Thank you. Mr. mayor, my understanding. Mr. lyne.

N

Turned was that when council approved the master plan and overall densities on.

N

The site we actually gave up the opportunity to to provide some section.

N

37 benefits like community. Sorry like daycare, is that correct.

I

Through you, mr. mayor right, so the the current zoning and official plan regime was approved by city council in 2007 as woodbine live.

I

Development and a large degree of development was provided by council as.

I

An incentive for woodbine life to emerge at that point in time, section 37 was not.

I

Part of that regime, so there are, there is no opportunity in terms of the.

R

Current applications that were considered by community council and will.

R

Go to city council on april 24th for any section 37. That is correct. So if there.

N

Are some residential developments possible in the next little while.

N

Because it's within the overall densities approved under the master plan.

N

Section 37 will continue to not be applicable through mr. marin. No, that's.

R

Not correct councilor, the regime that was implemented in 2007 spoke to all of.

I

The employment uses the residential uses that were provided for were provided for.

R

In the official plan, but the underlying land use designation on the lands where.

R

The residential designation was applied to still employment, so it will require a.

R

Zoning bylaw amendment to implement that and that will represent an increase in.

R

Height and density from what's currently provided for so that will open up those.

I

Section 37 conversations all right. Thank you. Thank you. Cancer george, oh counselor,.

C

Ainsley, thank you three men, mr. mara torrey, so I just wanted to follow up so.

I

When it comes to community benefits for hiring targets, how do we enforce that.

I

Like I know, there's annual reports and there's, as I think you say, quarterly.

I

Report, mr. bollinger, so if we don't meet those targets or the proponent, doesn't.

I

Meet those targets, is there a penalty or how do we say you know you didn't meet.

I

Those targets like it's great, to have targets, but what, if they're, not met.

B

Through the mayor, so the intent is that issues would be identified through the.

B

Governance process who's a different table so as because the city is there.

A

The service provider is there and that those issues would be addressed and.

A

Problem solved and as part of that process.

A

Should there be issues that don't get a rep address, then the opportunity would.

A

Be as the city and the service providers, the signatories to the agreement to have.

B

Further discussions, in addition to that, there are planning approval requirements.

T

And there they include that there be a community benefit agreement in good.

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Standing in order in order to proceed with planning approval mechanisms, the.

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Additional issue in terms of oversight and enforcement is, the report recommends.

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A number of recommendations to provincial authorities to increase the.

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Oversight opportunity, but one of the recommendation- I don't.

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Mr.Brother, I don't understand what that means, so they have targets, they get a.

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Rope we get a report in quarterly or annually that they didn't meet their.

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High ring target, so the penalty is to have heard more discussion or to reach.

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Out to the provincial government know the the enforcement mechanisms available.

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To council will be through the land use approvals process that there has to be a.

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Community benefit agreement in good standing, the determination of whether or.

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Not the cba is in good standing with the annual reporting that we will be.

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Doing the council council has an ability, through the land, juice approval regime.

T

To enforce a community benefit agreement right, okay, all right.

I

The other question I had merit or ii was around condition: number 17 and I'm.

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Trying to understand that that lays out a number of different conditions, if, if.

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All of if the conditions are met and number 17 does that allow the proponent.

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To expand the gambling operations without the consent of council, I will.

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Last legal to respond to that. Well, I'm not I'm not sure that I would.

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Specifically, reference that condition, one of the recommendations and the.

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Reporters that we're asking the province to give us further consent rights in the.

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Event that a proponent expands a gambling facility. That's because that.

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Doesn't exist right now, and so I mean right now, technically speaking, we have.

N

Approval rights, but if they meet those.

I

Conditions in number 17 can they turn around and say you know. This is an.

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Agreement that we start with city council, here's are the conditions under.

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Number 17 we met all of these. We're gonna expand the gambling we're applying.

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The olg to expand the number of slots on can they do that? Yeah I mean we would.

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Want, presumably, at that point we would want to have input as to whether the.

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Agreement was in good standing overall, but yes, I mean if, as long as the.

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Agreement was in good standing. We would have to assume at this point that they.

N

Could expand that's? Why there's a recommendation in the report asking the.

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Province to give us additional consent authority right, but that means we would.

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I agree would we want to have input, but if they meet these conditions, then.

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Legally, they could expand gaming beyond what their, what they would.

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Have yes, no as long as long as they're under the olg process and they get the.

N

Approval they needed that okay, thank you, mara, torrey. Thank you.

C

Councillor ainsley other questions of staff by members of the committee, ah sir.

C

Alessio. Thank you. Mr. mayor. Oh through you just some verification to.

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City council, back in 2011, we have approved 21 conditions to be met from.

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Those the planning conditions having met is: is that correct? That's correct, yes,.

R

That's correct it. The first 12 of the 21 conditions were related to planning.

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Conditions and as per our report through etobicoke, your community council staff,.

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Of the opinion that the 12 planning conditions have been met now with.

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Regards to the 9 social conditions is, according to the report also, those.

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Conditions having met is the correct through the chair. Yes to see opinion of.

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Staff that those have been met now there is one point in terms of the minor.

G

Technical amendment, as he relates to to the performance standards for parking, is.

G

Can you please clarify that aspect through you, mr. mayor.

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Yes, this is one of the one of the requests that have been made through the.

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Bylaw amendment application was about the parking requirements that attach.

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Itself to the casino itself, and so we've addressed that in the draft zoning bylaw.

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Amendment that it's booked, that is going to go before council on april 24th, so.

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That would be okay as well. Yes, now to mr. pillinger.

G

Is with regards to the community benefit agreement? Is there any other.

G

Jurisdiction within the province in ontario.

G

Where you have these kind of agreements, or is this perhaps of course one that.

G

We're gonna move to it. I'm not aware of any other agreements in the province of.

T

This scale and magnitude: no, so this is the first one. I know this.

T

Magnitude this scale and magnitude. Yes, thank you now, I'm planning to put a motion forward and it has to do with municipal.

G

Contribute a contribution agreement and this question will be to the city.

G

Manager or the treasury as city council back in 2015.

G

Did ask and through city staffed to us, the province to reconsider the remain.

G

The existing mca formula, how we receive anything from them and how we have.

G

Anything from the province from the perspective through the mayor: yes, okay,.

B

So there was a direction in 2015 to request the province to amend the.

A

Hosting calculation and that request was made- and it was- we have not received any.

D

Confirmation that we haven't received confirmation now, what's the percentage.

G

Of the city gets it in terms of a hosting fee at the moment, two point.

G

Three percent who did through the chair? Yes, the actual hosting fee, is 16 million.

B

Dollars, which represents roughly 2.2 percent of the total revenues that are.

B

Generated from the slots at woodbine, but what to be the total gross revenue.

G

Forecasted for yeah so that that works out to, in fact, seven hundred and fifty.

B

Million dollars in gross slot revenue from the og financial statements, so it.

G

Will be fair to say that the amount that the city gets it.

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Is a very, very small amount so that we heard say through the chair I mean we've.

B

Had all j revenue coming into the city since 2000 and typically over that.

B

Course of that time period it varies between 2 and 3%, so it seems like now.

G

Everything is falling into place and we'll be communicating. Finally, with.

G

The province will be appropriate to have this motion that I did a check with city.

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Staff as well, maybe just for them to look into it where we have nothing else.

G

To lose but perhaps to to gain that, certainly we could petition the province.

B

To to amend the hosting fee once more, no further questions. Thank you.

C

Thank you, council, as you are there, any other questions of staff by members of.

C

The committee and I'm just checking now councillor thompson is there and.

C

Councillor, bio, that was here a minute ago, just concerned.

C

Else is here: oh, they are kind of things, easy. Okay, all right, questions of staff.

C

Then we've moved on from that and we would go to then the speakers from.

C

Outside of the committee and council lady, thank you very much and I'll be.

M

Very brief out of respect for the committee, because I'm actually gonna walk out of the door right after this to go and pick up my daughter daycare. It's gonna come as no surprise that I won't be supporting this item at.

M

City council, more specifically, I won't be supporting the planning application.

M

That that goes before city council- I won't do so because, five years ago, when.

M

We debated this item for the city and for in particular for my community. I.

M

Went at when researching the impacts of community of casinos on local.

M

Communities determined that a it they had, they increased the proportion of.

M

Problem gamblers from the local community around the casino because of.

M

Proximity and be most of the money that was taking in by a casino was from.

M

Problem gamblers, or from people that live close to the community, I think.

M

That's something that I would want in my community, and I and I wouldn't put it in.

M

Any other I'm not gonna play that game. Second and.

M

I learnt this over time as I was exploring the notion of a casino, because.

M

I don't have a moral objection to a casino, but it started to occur to me.

M

That, if we are r8, if we are putting in more casinos to raise revenue, which is.

M

What what the province is doing to do so on the backs of gambling addictions is.

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Wrong, it's the wrong way for for governments to raise revenue.

M

Having said that, council has determined: we will undertake this if the deal is.

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Right so I am determined to try to make that deal right. What we have in front of.

M

Us, despite our staffs accomplishments and some of the things they've achieved.

M

This is a bad deal. First of all, for the city, it's a bad deal. We only get 15 10.

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To 15 million new dollars remember when it was a hundred million dollars and.

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City would get they actually said. The the olg president not running to be a.

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For a conservative candidate in the upcoming and upcoming election said.

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Toronto get 50 to 100 million. Our city manager said anything less than 100.

M

Million is a bad deal. This is 10 to 15 million dollars of revenue and we're.

M

Gonna have to shoulder the significant burden that comes up in all the literature. We heard some of it today from the medical officer of health, but.

M

It's also a bad deal for the local community, because, if they're gonna.

M

Shoulder the majority of the burden of this facility, it shouldn't be forced.

M

Down their throats and what they have come to us and said is the price of.

M

Admission to this community is 60 percent local hiring, 60 percent.

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Full-Time jobs, a fair living wage, they have said that there needs to be.

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Accountability mechanisms that bring experts in to give advice about whether.

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Or not they're achieving these targets, they need things, they need community.

M

Benefits like day care so that single, moms or families can go and work at.

M

Night, where they're, actually the more lucrative shifts in the casino, because.

M

Tips so they can get some of those good chefs, but they want to have their kids.

M

In a place, that's safe, they won't have access to community facilities, they want.

M

To see a piece of the action if you'll, allow me my first of what will be many.

M

Casino metaphors: they want to see a piece of the action directly from the.

M

Casino now one thing that we haven't seen come up is the notion of protecting.

M

The community from predatory lenders, um it won't come as a surprise on next week.

M

At council I'll be putting forward a motion around restricting payday loan.

M

Operations at the facility and in the surrounding area. Well, we should not be.

M

Determining that our recommendations that we made our requirements are being.

M

Fulfilled if the community is still unhappy- and I appreciate I appreciate.

M

The work that counsel that the staff has done, but I don't think we've come even.

M

Close to achieving recommendation 20 around ensuring that the operator is.

M

Meeting and addressing the impacts of a casino on the local community, I don't.

M

Think we're even close and I'll put on notice. The executive committee mayor.

M

Staff all be coming to look for emotions. They get us to a point that we achieve.

M

The community benefits that the community has come here demanding in.

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Order for us to approve this, and it may very well be that we say we have not met.

M

They have not met this requirement and we need to send them back to get more to.

M

Ensure that all of those all of those impacts are being addressed to the.

M

Satisfaction of city council, because I think that was the original intent and.

M

That's what we need to get to. I should also note, though, that it's very disappointing to see there's no quantification of the actual cost.

M

Implications of a casino, if we're only getting 10 million, we better make sure.

M

That the costs are gonna be less than that. Thank you. Councillor layden.

C

Councillor davis, I won't address all of the other conditions.

B

That councillor layton has identified that should be improved for this to.

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Become an acceptable agreement, I am going to focus, as you can imagine, on on.

B

The childcare piece, the term sheets. Well, let me just back up. I know that our.

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Staff have brought forward to us what their in their opinion meets the.

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Requirements that we sent them off to meet, but it is up to us at council to.

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Determine whether or not it does and whether it's good enough, that is our.

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Role so to simply point-blank say: oh childcare is beyond the scope. Somebody.

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Has interpreted that, but that's not beyond the scope, as I see it, it's very.

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Clear in this term sheet and in what we sent off in terms of conditions that.

B

They were to address the three streams of employment stability for current.

B

Staff, new recruitment and employment equity in the employment and labor.

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Market plan, if you're going to have an employment and labor market plan that.

B

Addresses those three streams you have to do something about making childcare.

B

Available now it may not be paying 100% of the capital costs. The operating costs.

B

And any subsidies, and it may not be 24/7 despite the need it may be something.

B

Less than that, but there is no attempt here whatsoever to address the shortage.

B

Of childcare in that community and for that workforce, clearly it's a problem.

B

Now and clearly, it will be an even larger problem in the future. This.

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Particular community etobicoke north at least 400 spaces, to bring it up to.

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Equity, it is one below counselor, burnside's, ward 26. He has the worst.

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Service in all of the city, in terms of childcare service, this is number two and.

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Of this employer that is intent on hiring locally, they will be hiring.

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People who need childcare, so I it doesn't satisfy me that they have done.

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Nothing to address childcare and to bring women into the workforce.

B

You will need childcare and some level of support, so employers of various kinds.

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Have provided support in a variety of ways, and I think they need to be.

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Challenged to go back, they can build a facility and commit some capital money.

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Let the city the province in the federal government, with their new childcare money, contribute some, but they have to do something. That's what employers have.

B

Been challenged to do for many years when they introduce large new.

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Developments, and so I think that it's simply inadequate and not in this way.

B

And in many other ways and in its current form I definitely will not be.

B

Supporting it- and I hope that counselor bylaws motion is broad enough and is.

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Interpreted broadly enough that we can ensure that there is a report that comes.

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To council that encourages some dialogue between now and then with the with the.

B

With woodbine about what they're prepared to do about childcare, thank you.

B

Thank you, councillor davis. I have here a list that now has on it. Counselor.

C

Forward and then deputy mayor holliday and over there. Thank you very much. Mr.

P

Mayor and members of the executive, as a visiting member of council, of course, and.

P

The visiting member council to the executive committee and.

P

Co-Counselor representing atomic lenore's, who has worked very closely.

P

With many of the members of the public in this room with city staff, which me.

P

The agencies, and with people who living directly around this project, I'm here to.

P

Speak in support of our community for this significant investment before I do.

P

That I do want to take a moment and and truly thank all the staff who are around.

P

This room, who have dedicated so much time to this report and to making this.

P

Work, I know firsthand of the hard work they have done so on behalf of the.

P

Atomic endorsed community I have sent at once. I will continue this.

P

And and hopefully I can say that council thank you for all the work you have put.

P

Into this, and I think the depth events and the many community organizations who.

P

Have come out and shared what they support on this. Some of the concerns.

P

They have and as we move forward, we continue to work with the challenges we.

P

Face in north otago, not quite frankly, I know many deaf students and that goes.

P

Beyond this development, it goes beyond that and it goes to community building.

P

And and there's the city continuing to make the significant investments we need.

P

In north to tobiko, so I am very glad to hear that one of the things and also I.

P

Thank great canadian and brookfield and we'll buy an entertainment group for.

P

Being very open and collaborative partners throughout this process, one.

P

Thing I want to mention and respond to one of my colleagues. I know he left the.

P

Room, but to say that this community does not want it is completely backwards from.

P

What I have seen not what duck didn't hear today, although there were concerns.

P

There were opinions made, not one person has come to myself or even in front of.

P

This committee, or a total, your community council or any of the public.

P

Consultations and said we do not want this investment about one person and I.

P

Can safely say that I think this go to the bigger picture of the economic.

P

Impact this investment will have not just a casino, but what comes with it, and.

P

What investments are brought into our community investments that we are.

P

Actually, currently seeing right now- and we have been seen in the last six months.

P

That this is already leveraging and it doesn't even have city council approval.

P

And we are seeing that firsthand and I think this is going to leverage more.

P

Investments for this part of there in the northwest part of toronto through.

P

Transit about connecting the west to transit through city council's approved.

P

Transit expansions along the finch, lrt, eglinton, lrt and, of course, hooking it up.

P

To the airport, this is one thing that actually makes this a reality.

P

I think the community benefits agreement once again a lot thank staff for, for.

P

Putting this out, I think yes, there will always be more work to be done. You know.

P

I look forward to seeing some of the motions that come forward, whether it's.

P

In this committee or city council, which I'm sure that will be the case, you know.

P

Then I think this community benefits agreement and what and who I have spoken.

P

To our own staff and and industry experts in you know the the emerging.

P

Community benefit agreement, perspective and approach to city building says this.

P

Is actually precedent setting precedent setting not only in our city that we.

P

Have heard from our staff but our country and in north america and a lot.

P

Of cities will be looking to us to see how we move forward with this. So you.

P

Know I think these significant investments in 40% jobs that are.

P

Currently in here it is massive for our community. There are statistics in the.

P

Report that say that we have about 8,000 unemployed and when you do the math that.

P

Works out to almost about 3,000, which is a significant job, investment which would.

P

Bring us well under the city average in unemployment, if you add in all I.

P

Don't find we won't do that here. You know and and as I said it's it's about.

P

The master plan- and I think it's about what and I invite all my colleagues to.

P

Look at not just this phase of the project, but what goes beyond this.

P

Project and what they're looking at in phase 2 and phase 3, and let me tell you.

P

It is a it is a miniature city of investment about connecting with the.

P

Local colleges and universities in the area creating green space, residential.

P

Development in the whole nine yards- and I invite my colleagues so if you haven't.

P

Seen the master plan that is not fully in front of us today, please come by. I.

P

Might be happy to walk you through with it, because it is the greater vision for the northwest. It's not just it. Just doesn't.

P

Stop here, you've had the local councillor bonus here, and I can't ask.

P

You to just wrap up, I will I'll say my comments for city council. Mr. mayor, I do.

P

Believe that this is a significant investment and some of the challenges we.

P

See in north dakota grow, this will go a long way to help us improve the economic.

P

Viability of the northwest, so thank you very much.

C

Thank you, deputy mayor holiday. Thank you mr. mayor. Hopefully you can.

F

Hear me, what would one of my discussions be without a picture as an elected.

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Representative of a vitoca co of the city of toronto and a resident of tobago.

F

I'm happy to say I support the proposal before you and I'm confident that this.

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Committee will do the same. I wanted to offer two thoughts. I've been listening.

F

The discussion today I had listened to it at etobicoke community council.

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Recently, where we discussed the plan of subdivision, it heard from a number of.

F

People to come out and speak to us about that, but the first was first point. I.

F

Wanted to bring across was my concern about the definition of the local.

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Community the report has included something in here and it talks about.

F

What the local community is and they've drawn a seven kilometer circle around it.

F

And they've roughly defined it as mr. brill enger' told us, as as the local.

F

Riding and I think they've reached some conclusions than they done some analysis.

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To to articulate what that is mr. abdul, I think it's still sitting here. He came.

F

Out- and he spoke to the community council about this- and he left us with.

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An idea called postal code exclusion and he talked about it very, very well. The.

F

First time I heard about post localytics postal code, exclusion was within my own.

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Community- and it was right about here on the map just outside that circle- I have.

F

I have an area of my community where there have been recent homicides. There.

F

Are racialized groups? There is poverty, there is unemployment and they're just.

F

Outside of this circle, but then I heard today this press to change the ratios of.

F

Local hiring to go from 40 to 60, and that worries me because the folks that I.

F

Represent directly are just outside of this circle, but I'll put to you if you.

F

Hop on the 427 from that intersection you're, like a four-minute drive to this.

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Site I shop nearby I've taken my kids to the to the racetrack to look at the.

F

Horses, they had a great time. It is part of my local community, so I would ask the.

F

Committee that if you're you're getting requests to start to play with those ratios, they come at a cost. They come at a cost and they start to become postal.

F

Code, illusion of those that do live nearby.

F

Just outside that community- and I think, there's plenty of neighborhoods just.

F

Like the one that I represent, that sure could use the jobs that are available.

F

Through this- and you know, let's, let's go and see what those ratios that are.

F

Currently prescribed show us I'll also offer you a second thought. I know the.

F

Site well, in fact, in the era of bc, before children, my wife and I would go.

F

To a cafe at the woodbine center, just across the road from this site, and they.

F

Would set up an outdoor cafe and they'd have a really nice acoustical guitar.

F

Player playing the problem with that is, it was hit and miss when we would go on.

F

A friday night, because if they were operating the north runway on the.

F

Airport, this is directly in a flight path. We wouldn't be having this.

F

Conversation, I didn't hear the acoustic, the acoustical guitar and that cafe.

F

Didn't do so well that night, a lot of people have talked about day care, and I.

F

Asked a bunch of very specific questions about what their vision was from day.

F

Care and I heard all kinds of things from a site to a component to a place on.

F

Site to a place off site, I did hear a lot about employer-sponsored day care or.

F

Essentially, a benefit, I think my message to you is: I had not heard much about day.

F

Care, I think one person brought it up at the community council meeting. There was.

F

More about a discussion about a community center, this seems to be an.

F

Idea, that's come up recently. There doesn't seem to be a consensus on what.

F

That means I'm not even sure it's a it's a suitable site for a daycare. There's.

F

You know it's, it's a commercial location, it's near a flight path, heck! It's a.

F

Casino site and a racetrack, I don't even know if you can set up a suitable.

F

Daycare in there and I'm not sure that the staff could give me an answer today,.

F

So before we rush down a path, I think I think we deserve to think about what.

F

That is and what the people have asked for today and unpack what we've heard. I.

F

Hope you'll leave you with those two thoughts and I trust the wisdom of the.

F

Committee that you'll move this this proposal forward. I think it is a good.

F

Thing for the people of etobicoke, the people of north etobicoke and, of course,.

F

The people of toronto, thank you thanks deputy merry holiday. Are there.

C

Other members of the city council, deputy councilor grisanti, yes, thank you.

D

Mr. chair, so I too want to add my support to the proposal in front of you.

D

And ask that the executive committee moved this initiative forward and and.

D

And it's been just a moment to to also echo and my thanks to all the staff that.

D

Participated in the reports that we have in front of us for the many months and.

D

And now going on close to a couple of years where, where you put in a lot of.

D

Time, dedication and effort and making this happen, I also want to particularly.

D

Mention a couple of people: john libby, j, pelageya, of course, chris bollinger who's.

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With us here today as well and the late peter notaro, who spent so much time and.

D

Dedication on this file- and I can't tell you the number of meetings we've had.

D

When he was here so and and and the deputies that are that are here today,.

D

Thank you for coming out. We were listening, we all took notes and at the.

D

End of the day, it is about a partnership. I also want to thank the partners by the.

D

Way who who are with us here today as well, it is about a good partnership. It's.

D

A it's about what's happening here in front of us today. It's about creating.

D

Jobs this journey started many years ago. Some of you may recall on an issue on.

D

Initiative a called at the time would mine live and that never got off the.

D

Ground and I didn't get off the ground for whatever reason it just wasn't. The.

D

Right time, the right ingredients were in place its back on the table. Now I think.

D

Now we have all the right ingredients in place. We have 700 acres of prime land, we.

D

Have an area of the city that needs our attention as a council, we need to.

D

Address the issues any topical northen and the first thing we need to address.

D

Are the time is the job issue, and the only are going to create jobs is by.

D

Creating a better environment and shirring that there's development, that's.

D

Going to bring jobs- and this is what it's about.

D

It's about the jobs, so in july, 2015 council supported and endorsed expanded.

D

Gaming couldn't conditional on the 21 conditions, so this is what it's all.

D

About right now, the 21 conditions, not whether or not were interested in its.

D

Pending gaming, we have that we did that. We've done that. So now we're got to move.

D

Forward and staff did the heavy lifting I know having both of councilor ford and.

D

And the community, the time that was spent in in in consulting and in putting.

D

Together this report a lot of hard work, a lot of evenings, a lot of weekends and.

D

We have the results now we so we as council have to have the confidence when.

D

Staff tells us that the 21 conditions are met, that we should move forward and.

D

Let's make sure we get the shovel in the ground as soon as possible,.

D

In terms of the community benefits, we have assurances from staff that they.

D

Have negotiated diligently with all stakeholders and and and and again they.

D

Reiterate that you know the the they have a framework for an agreement in.

D

Place are there certain things that could be tweaked and improved absolutely.

D

There's more that can be done and more will be done. This is just the first.

D

Phase, remember, there's 700, acres and and in this expansion of the casino and all.

D

The amenities that come with it and making it a premier destination place.

D

And creating those jobs is the catalyst that will invite the interest and the.

D

Developers that will come knocking on our doors, saying we're interested in.

D

Continuing to build it's about housing, it's about jobs, it's about a lot of.

D

Things so I'm asking the committee to to endorse this this and then hopefully.

D

It'll be the same, and one more thing to it is also about protecting their.

D

Current 7,500 jobs and in the horse racing industry that are there, that's.

D

Also critical: we have to protect those jobs. So those are my comments. Mr. mayor.

C

Thank you. Thank you. Councillor, santee. Are there.

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And other visiting members of council think there's any left that haven't.

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Spoken so I think that would move us to members of the committee wishing to speak and who would like to go first councillor thompson. Thank you very much.

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Mr. mayor, there are three motions that I have and maybe stuff can put them on the.

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Screen I'll try not to really go too much over in terms of what has already.

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Been stated other than to say I agree with many of the comments have been made.

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I'm not a gambler, I'm not fascinated by gambling and or facilities. I am.

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Fascinated by the opportunity that they do present to communities and so on and.

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How we manage those opportunities, the motions that I'm putting forward is.

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Seeking to assist, I know that the staff have done an amazing job. I want to.

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Congratulate the staff by the way again and done that they have sat with me.

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They've sought out to come and give me an opportunity to learn about why they.

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Have actually made the different recommendations that they have and so on then the agreement process and I think they have done a phenomenal job, but.

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We're always able to provide additional oversight to examine and re-examine and.

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Put forward ideas and or through as they are recommendations to substantively.

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Change things I want to thank the members of the community that are here.

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To come out to fight for their community and so on, and I certainly want to thank.

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The folks from the greatest canadian gaming company for being here because.

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Obviously, they're hearing what is being said amongst the members of the.

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Community and so on, I think it's important in terms of our duties as.

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Elected officials to ensure that we can collect, create this collaborative.

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Process in spirit from an economic development perspective. Clearly the.

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Winners can't just be the companies and the corporation, so community also have.

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To win, they have to be winners as well and beneficiary to the great benefits.

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That will come as a result of this particular facilities. I was part of a.

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Process before where we were negotiating with the olg and promises were made, but.

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Obviously, promises were not kept. My motions are not intended to.

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That promises are kept. It is that we distinctively put in place what we.

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Really need to happen where there's an opportunity where labor can be involved.

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In the process and we've heard about the expertise that they can actually bring.

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To the table to assist, luckily, the company and the community.

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Because, at the end of the day, everyone will benefit.

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I suspect that not everybody will agree with that particular comment, but I think.

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That this is in the best interest of the community, the notion around daycare and.

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Other services that we've talked about here today, I think it's actually.

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Essential and in fact I think it's a benefit, it's a win for the company, so.

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That you can have people in the local community being able to go to work.

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Having that level of confidence, quite frankly, that their children are being.

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Taken care of and the employer is able to realize that the employee is.

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Absolutely able to go to work and and provide that level of work and they're.

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Happy and they know that their children and their children's welfare take care.

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Of that's a really good message, in my view, the the idea around the money I was.

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Uncomfortable about the smallness of the amount of money, the 15 million dollars.

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Quite frankly, yes, I understand we were topping it up so to speak. I would have.

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Liked to have seen a different formulation, but I think that I'm going.

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To obviously agree with the staff and the process that has been, I guess agreed.

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To in terms of in principle, clearly I guess we could change that if we wanted.

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To but I think that I'm going to be satisfied with that. For the moment, the.

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Wood wine community is a fantastic community. At one point I owned a home in.

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Around the area and I've seen a general decline in the nature of the community.

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I've seen the impact and we're talking about racialize know people often used.

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To use the notion of racialization and so on, but there are a lot of black.

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People like myself in this area that are not benefiting and there's a real need.

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To ensure that their spirit and their desire is not amputated.

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There's a need to or that when others are benefiting, that.

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They too could be part of the success of the community. It ensures that everyone.

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Wins at this particular point in time. Otherwise, we're failing the community.

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We're failing the diversity that we so proudly. You know.

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Cherish- and we talked about globally about how we are a diverse, the city- we.

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Are a diversity, but we have to ensure that that diversity is also benefiting.

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From this city and the city's reputation so for those particular reasons, mr.

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Mayor I'm going to be supporting this particular item as it goes forward to.

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Council, I'm hoping that the motions that I put forward that members can can.

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Support them and I'm also supportive of any id. You know, I think I'm heard that.

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There's probably an idea, a recognition that perhaps we should maybe send this.

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On to staff, for further review and so on, and to bring the matter back to council.

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As it to allowed to come forward, I'm okay with that as well, because if we're.

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Not happy with the results at that point, I'll move them again at council. Thank.

C

You thank you councillor, thompson, councillor, platt, ceo.

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Thank you, mr. mayor, I'm sorry, oh there. So there's number.

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Seat number one or whatever number c, travel and region labor, council, toronto.

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Community benefits be included, that's motion, b, motion c, so we didn't see a yet.

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A following amendments: so it's taking out the words, use all reasonable.

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Commercial efforts- that was something that's discussed quite frequently, as you said, during the vacations yeah. So there there are the three but they're.

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Questions people had, I think these were widely discussed. My house during the.

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Deputation, so, okay, so no questions of the mover, we'll move on to the next.

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Speaker, who, I believe was councillor platts you thank you. Mr. mayor I'd like.

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To move have a motion as well. In essence, is that city council requested.

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Government to ontario in the ontario lottery and gaming corporation.

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To amend a system in esport hosting fee formula, considering the problem, a the.

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Costing fee is governed by a standard, province-wide municipal contribution.

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Agreement which must be reviewed to reflect a fair equity return. It canceled.

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Consents to expand gaming at goodbye, miss mayor, and I would like to thank.

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City staff, as for the missing water, like adonis literally three long years of.

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Hard work and- and they have done due diligence in terms of making sure that.

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When recommendations having met, they propose giving expansion on the current.

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Gaming facilities about job retention, job creation, it's about economic.

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Revitalization and prosperity for the west end part of the realm of ragsdale.

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This equation: that's desperately in need of revitalization. This is a great.

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Opportunity to not only to protect the system, jobs that we have there, but also.

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To create thousands and thousands or new jobs in the end in locally, and that will.

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Most definitely foster economic development and growth and economic.

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Sustainability as we move forward, that's extremely important now in terms of what.

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I can just see the wave that part of town is going to be transformed, is going.

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To become a destination for a destination place, I can only imagine.

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Having a modern, world-class entertainment destination, there is, and.

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Of course, that's going to benefit the city of toronto's will, in terms of the.

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Assessment base that's going to to increase the revenue fees, even though.

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I'm not happy at all with what's on the table, sixty million dollars and that we.

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Are getting into skids the most thirty million dollars.

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But this recommendation that I'm putting forward is about fairness, is when the.

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Provincial government will be getting 1.3 million dollars in those are the.

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Stats that were given to us in 2011 today, I heard also the minimum of seven.

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Hundred million dollars so when the city gets a paltry amount of 15 million.

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Dollars which is equivalent to 0.3%, it seems that the serious and order of.

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Government and being the major economic engine of the country, literally speaking,.

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We have nothing to lose but to gain and to ensure that things.

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Are done properly is some of the potential impacts and that's something.

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That we discussed that at a topical, your community council and for in those are.

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The things that we have to be very mindful about it, it's how to mitigate.

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Those human social impacts that eventually is going to happen. They cost.

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In terms of policing, fire and emergency medical service, and all of that.

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Those are calls that have to come from somewhere the casting layer, discussions.

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And with regards to the middle child, cut of child care, now.

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As the area gentrified as numerous as new people are moving in, they need is.

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There- and it only makes sense, it only makes sense to have to have a system.

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That's going to help those in need in a child care, a good shelter at an.

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Affordable childcare is something that's extremely important and that's something.

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That I'll be more than glad to support. Those are my comments aims me. Thank you.

C

Councillor palacio so other speakers for this matter. That's.

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Deputy mayor mr. mayor, I have a couple of motions motion, a I think, and these.

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Word had advanced circulation, so I think everybody's expecting that its motion be.

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Has actually been something that has been negotiated already and motion a is.

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Something that I'm hoping that it will be negotiated. We have an opportunity to.

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Bring good jobs to this part of town we heard from evidence today. This is an.

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Area that has 63 percent of its population living below the average of.

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The city of toronto: this is an area that needs the jobs that needs the.

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Investments that needs the the attention and the care that comes from a.

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Development like this, but most importantly through the toronto.

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Community benefits network that we're doing here this. This has to benefit.

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Everybody it needs to benefit our partners, but it needs to benefit the.

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Benefit the employees that are in there and the residents that are in there and.

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I think that we have a strong foundation. I think everybody acknowledged that we.

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Have a strong foundation, it's good to see the city moving in that direction.

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It's good to see that our partners are still talking. I mean this motion is.

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Something that staff has as actually asked me to move, because it is the the.

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Conversation that continues to happen between the partners, the motion around.

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The childcare is really something that I am hoping. I think I believe I personally.

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Believe that it is part of the 21 conditions, I think you will not be able.

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To fulfill the 21 conditions, if you don't have the childcare, that is my.

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Interpretation- and I think many councilors actually chaired that, but I.

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Think that, as a new partner that is coming, that is going to be dealing with.

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The city with this community creating jobs that is gonna, be it being here for.

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22 years, the matter is not, if it is part of the 21 conditions are not the.

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Question should be: can we deliver on something that we know.

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It's gonna be a major issues for employees and community. In here we have.

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This experience, we have it at lawrence heights, we have it at regent park and.

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That's why I'm so keen on putting this forward? We know from our experience that.

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This is a major issue. We know that this is a big piece of development that is.

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Not easy to access that has shift work that is gonna be hard if you're a single.

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Mother, that has to start a chef at seven o'clock in the morning and needs to drop.

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Off your child to check on a childcare center. This is a major issue if you're.

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Trying to create opportunity for all these targets that we're trying to.

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Implement through this this project here this is a major issue, so I truly hope.

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That we can have a dialogue and that by council we have both part. Both sides of.

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The city submitting a report that we have this employee delivering on this.

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Because that's how you're gonna build an exciting project with exciting employees.

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Working for you creating good jobs, creating good communities it's by coming.

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To the table, without arguing, if it is a way to fulfill one of the 21 conditions,.

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Or not, the reality is experience shows us that if you don't have things like.

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This in place, it's gonna be hard to create the opportunity for the people.

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That need it, the most for the people that we need. Your help.

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To create these opportunities in the city of toronto, so that, yes, we can be.

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Extremely proud of the entertainment facility that you're gonna be creating.

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An amazing state-of-the-art facility, but we're going to be equally proud of the.

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Employees that we have in there the conditions that we have for those employees and the all the community around that. So I'm looking forward to.

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The results of the conversation thanks deputy mayor barlow, I had councillor.

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Ainsley next and then councillor robert, thank you, so I guess I have some.

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Concerns around this, just that I don't want the city to be on the hook for any.

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Of this you know the casino should be. I know I.

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Understand that the process you need to go through right, this is not locked.

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Locked into the these, the conditions but you're proposing this be considered.

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Reviewed, etc. So my issue is, I don't really want the city or.

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Taxpayers of this city to be funding this endeavor. I would like to see the.

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Casino, if this, if they go down this path, to fund this, so my question is whether.

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It would be a friendly amendment to put in at no cost to the city, so we have a.

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Childcare plan, what this area is already childcare deficiency. I agree with you my.

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Wish is, and what I would like to see is to have the casino come to the table. We.

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Ask that of our lawyer developments, like I said when I spoke, I have three large.

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Developments in my area and they're paying for the capital costs of that of.

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Those daycares, I I think we need to give the indication to staff leave the box.

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Open so they can have those conversations and those negotiations and.

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Then see what's gonna come back at council and then vote accordingly and.

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And you know comment accordingly change accordingly, with what is there? I agree.

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With you, I think the casino has the the should be the one helping us with the.

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These expenses shouldn't be coming just at the expense of the city, are being.

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Just part of our childcare expansion plan, the reality is that this area is.

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Already child care deficiency- and we should be working with this with this.

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Facility, but I think we need to leave the box open to have the negotiations.

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Take place. Okay, I guess I don't believe residents should be funding a childcare.

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Facility at a casino that could clearly fund it. So my issues, I'm struggling you.

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Know I would like to support you, but I I'm I'm struggling with that piece that.

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That's not really taxpayers responsibility to fund a daycare.

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Facility within a casino, so I don't think that this should really impact.

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Residence, it should only impact the owner of this facility that, and so.

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That's why I'm not you know, I'm not happy with this unless it unless it.

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Somehow indicates it would be private or it would be at no cost to the councilor.

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I would love to use your wording. I was advised by legal not to do it that way.

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And to leave it open to allow the negotiations to happen.

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I agree a hundred percent and I think, that's actually very healthy- that we're.

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Having these conversations, because I know that everybody's in the room and so.

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That people understand where the will of a lot of people are that that would like.

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Them to come to the table and as the negotiations proceed, that they clearly.

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Understand that there could be actually an issue if they don't come to the table.

J

On on on things like this, okay, those were questions of the mover.

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Any other questions of the mover all right, quick question. Mr. muir, through.

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You to council bail out your motion, isn't presupposing that the daycare is.

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Actually, in the casino, it could absolutely not be some way far away and.

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As long as it's yeah, I mean nobody's okay, there's good! No! I don't want.

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Nobody's asking for a daycare in the middle of a casino, with the slot machines going to entertain the kids. What we're asking is what we're asking.

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Is for young gamblers right? What we're asking is for childcare yeah for the.

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Workers of the hotel for the whole entertainment there in a big site. It's a.

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Big site there's all kinds of constraints. We heard it here, planning.

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Even mention a few, we need to ask staff to have these conversations and come.

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Back because we know how important this is in order for us to fulfill those.

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Targets to go really and and and and get the jobs for the people that need it. The.

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Most, this will be an issue and we need to facilitate this. Thank you other question, question of the mover. Thank you. Mr.

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Mayor my understanding of casinos and daycares.

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Is casinos are actually very enthusiastic about building them, then.

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When it comes to their scope and their mission, they want them to be a play area.

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Where people coming to the casino can drop their kids, there go play the tables.

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Or the slot machines for five or six hours and grab their kids back. What.

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Regulations or conditions do you see in place advocating for a daycare that.

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Doesn't then morph into a play area? That's really.

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There to to kind of watch kids, while the parents can, I think, any childcare or.

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Daycare in the city of toronto, you can't just go because drop off your kids.

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There's regulations they're licensed by the province and we are a service.

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Manager for children services as well, if, if the casino intends to do a facility.

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Like that, for people that go to their cuz, you know and drop off their kids. I.

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Think that's up to them. You know it. That's not what we're talking about here.

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What we're talking about here is the hundreds and hundreds of workers in and.

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And people that are going to be living and live in that community that are is.

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Already child care deficiency and that we have an opportunity to have a.

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Facility, we have hundreds and hundreds of workers that are gonna, be working.

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Shift work in an area that is not the most you know: transit friendly.

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Accessible and we're trying to target a lot of these people, you know to create.

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Jobs and careers actually more than jobs careers. For you know some of the you.

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Know the most vulnerable in the area, good careers for them, and we know that.

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Child care is a key component of that. So that's what we're talking about! I'm not.

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Talking about dropping off kids to go play and or to gamble, I mean I know.

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Nothing about that. I know the experience that I have with some of the projects.

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That we have that in order to create the opportunity, for I understand the.

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Difference between the two thank you, council has kinetic any other questions.

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Of the mover alright, then we would then move to the next speaker, who was.

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Councillor ainsley, thank you mara, torrey, I'm. I guess first off I'll be supporting.

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The the recommendations in the report and and the emotions, the motions that.

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Are associated with it, you know we're trying to put our move.

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This forward, I don't think we're putting our best foot forward. I can think back.

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To when I was on council, when we had the debate about the downtown city council.

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Or a casino I'm putting a casino on the grounds of the cne and it was tied to.

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Doing a casino at the wood, pine, entertainment complex, I.

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Think at the time was called woodbine live. We defeated the casino at the cne.

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And then we looked at the one I would buy and almost like a consolation prize.

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And we put a number of conditions on it: 21 conditions that we're looking at here.

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Today and questioning of staff about condition, number 17 and if they meet all.

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The conditions: what authority do we have to keep the casino from expanding and.

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Even more the residents that we're here today, I want to thank all the residents.

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And the groups that were in here to depute, I think community benefits are.

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Very important I've learned from experience, though, when you're trying to.

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Get jobs from organizations through community benefits, for example, in my.

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Area the panam center, we put very specific conditions on the contractors.

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And construction companies that were building the panam sports center that.

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They'd had to hire locally when we went back a year later and asked about hiring.

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Locally staff said they couldn't, there's no statistics, the we they.

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Couldn't give absolute numbers on how many jobs were given to local youth.

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Local on people are unemployed from the scarborough east area, and so I also same.

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Condition about that here and staff said well, you know what are the penalties if.

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You don't hire locally and you know stop said well, we can have a discussion, we.

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Can go back to the provincial government, so those are a number of concerns. I've.

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Had there first and foremost, though, as a as a ward in eastern scarborough, I can.

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Show you a map of my ward. Three quarters of my warder are covered in neighborhood.

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Improvement areas, if, if I put in a casino or an entertainment, complex.

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Whatever you call it down in my ward, and I said you know, we're gonna hire 5,000.

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People, the majority, those people are gonna, be part-time, they're, gonna, be.

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Minimum wage people are gonna, say to me: well where's, where's the daycare. How.

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Like I already have enough trouble, I work two or three time part-time jobs to.

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Make ends meet, I'm gonna. Do it again, but I'm gonna do it at a casino where.

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Where's, the daycare and in this situation, you're gonna, say I don't have.

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A daycare- and you know I'll- make reference to to counselor ford, who.

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Earlier said, you know when you put all this together: the casino and woodbine.

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Square, it's almost like a small community and one of our other.

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Colleagues, I think it was councilor. Holliday said you know, this is 700 acres.

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Of prime real estate: well, it's 700 acres of prime real estate.

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That's undeveloped and if we're gonna build a community on 700 acres, a prime.

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Real estate, I think one of those components that we would look at is.

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Daycare on one level, I'm almost surprised that the proponents not here.

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Saying that yes, there's 5,000 jobs coming, this is what I'm doing we're.

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Gonna, you know the big topic of conversation in the room is daycare I'll.

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Commit to sitting down with staff and we'll look in at building a daycare.

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Because I can't really believe that, through all these negotiations and.

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Discussions that the topic of a daycare didn't come up and the proponents said.

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You know what, if that's, what seems to be the big concern and you want to make.

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This project work we'll commit to make building a daycare for you, even in this.

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Building the number of employees that we have in this building there's a daycare.

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Rate under us, we can make a daycare work in city hall. I can't believe that a.

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Casino operator or an entertainment, complex operator, whatever you want to.

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Call it between now and city council can't commit to building a daycare.

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Within this complex, so I look forward to hearing the report back, I'm going to be.

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Supporting councilor by those motion in particular, and I hope we'll see some.

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Inclination some outreach from the proponent that they'd be willing to put.

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A daycare into this complex, thank you. Thank you, katherine's the counselor to.

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George, oh thank you. Mr. mayor, I will be supporting the the recommendations of.

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Staff, along with councilor those motions I just want to make some.

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Brief comments about the the overall context of the master plan of the vision.

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That one has of the 600 acre site and we shouldn't focus on the gambling aspect.

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Because that seems to be the catalyst that will get the ball rolling and there.

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Are all sorts of uses that will be attracted to this site and there will be.

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Plenty of opportunities to get the daycare facilities that one looks for.

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Through section 37, by the way, I'm not suggesting that we not have some daycare.

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Right up front, but I do not. I do not support having a daycare in a casino. I.

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Mean to me it makes no sense whatsoever. I I think there are in proximity to the.

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Site, you might be able to find a daycare facility that we can establish with the.

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Cooperation of the proponent, but those are things that councilor bylaws motion.

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Is basically saying, let's look at and consider or negotiate something in the.

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Short term that we can do, but I think you need to recognize that this is a.

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Future destination, it will be a destination for people, not only in the.

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Northwest, but in across the whole city- and I think there are all sorts of.

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Positive attributes to this plan, it just takes a little bit of time for it, for it.

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To come to fruition and it'll be a great great great destination for the people.

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That live in the northwest. It will provide plenty of job opportunities over the longer term only, but what is it? Four or five thousand in.

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The short term, but in the longer term, it'll be even better now. The other thing.

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I might just comment on very quickly: is the kinds of sort of support mechanism.

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That has been put in place. I mean we've got this monitoring committee that.

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Includes ministry of health and long long-term care center for addiction and.

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Mental health cam h, william osler health system, we've got the.

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Proponent, the city of toronto and we're all making sure that whatever potential.

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Problems that erupt from from gaming- and there will be some it's inevitable, but.

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The support systems will be in place to take care of that now. You know, even if.

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We didn't get the revenue that we're anticipating from the province just the.

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Fact that jobs are being created and we're getting the development of the.

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Very underutilized site that in and of itself is positive. The revenue I think.

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Is gravy the revenue 15 million whatever it is? I think that needs to be treated.

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As gravy, the real revenue is in the job. Opportunities have been created, so I'll.

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Leave it at that mr. chair and I hope people will support this. What is before.

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Us thank you councillor, joe other speakers. After a deputy mayor, airmen.

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Walk I'll just speak briefly, because if I don't I'll be the odd person ever.

H

Because I expect all I'd be the only person who's being I'm not supporting.

H

This application didn't at the beginning, I I just think gambling drawing I I.

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Don't say this very often, but I'm with councilor late and on this one I will.

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Say just parenthetically all these motions and I think we're going down a.

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Slippery slope: this is a planning application in the licensing application.

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But all the things that we're requiring them to do it's a remarkable thing. The.

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Places that we're going like you know the how organized labor is involved and.

H

Their conditions for this and conditions for that and we were taking out clauses.

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With about you know commercial viability and so super, so we're putting imposing.

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Lots of conditions on what's fundamentally a business. I just think.

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It's a horribly slippery slope that we're saying that they have to have a.

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Daycare way to say, we have to have a daycare, since when does this governing.

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Miss me, this municipal government tell a business all the things they can and.

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Cannot do who they can't and can't hire. You know that's just this is not what we.

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Should we, this is not what we've done in the past, and this is not what we should.

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Be doing we should be, I I just think it's wrong.

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I just think it's wrong and I won't be supporting those motions that do those.

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Things, thank you, deputy memorandum, or are there other speakers councillor.

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Robinson take 30 seconds to say I also am not a big fan of casinos period.

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Philosophically I'm certainly happy it's not at the waterfront, and you know my.

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Understanding is the local councillors in the area. Are big supporters, big fans.

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And you know, certainly this is a better option than what we had before us last.

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Term so I will be supporting it. Having said that, you know, I don't think the.

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City should, first of all, I don't think we're getting sufficient funds, but it is.

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What it is- and it's all been worked on very hard by many staff. But having said.

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That, I don't think the city residents, the residents of the city, should incur.

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Any costs, including associated with daycare, because if these are individuals.

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That are working there and using this service for their families, because they.

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Work at the casino the casino should pay for it, so I feel very strongly about.

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That, as I'm sure, many people would be yeah, this is a corporation, a commercial.

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Entity and I'm going to be supporting councilor bylaws motion with the with.

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The you know, the thinking that it there'll be no cost to to the city on.

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This thanks that councillor robinson any other speakers. Well, I will just say a.

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Few words to conclude, then, if I may first of all I want to say thank you to.

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The staff and to all the partners so there's been a lot of people. Even some who've, come forward as decadent today to say: they've been involved in all this.

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And I think they've done a lot of hard work and I think it's been pointed out a number of times. This is a first in terms of our community benefits agreements and.

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I hope it will be the first of many. I respectfully disagree with my colleague.

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Deputy mayor, minh and wong, in the sense that I think, especially when it comes to.

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An enterprise like this, the only reason you can make it palatable to the.

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Greatest number of people is, if you do actually impose some conditions on it. If.

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It was kind of left to be the wild west where they could do whatever they wanted.

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I think there would be a lot of people to be uncomfortable. I have said many.

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Times publicly that I'm not a great proponent of casinos, I would have.

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Against one downtown, if I'd been here at the time that was voted upon and and I'm.

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I've said many times that I'm satisfied as one member of council and as the.

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Mayor to see one located in northwest tronto in part because it is a place.

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Where there's already gambling taking place in a very substantial way, but more.

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Importantly, because this is the best chance, I think, to spur other economic.

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Development and jobs in the northwest part of the city, and so I think that is.

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Extremely important- and I guess one final point, which is that under provincial policy- and this is not a reason in and of itself to approve a.

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Casino, but in an under provincial policy there is going to be additional gambling.

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Establishments in southwest in southern ontario gta anyway, and if we're gonna.

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Get some of those jobs in an area of the city that desperately needs them and it's gonna go way beyond a casino which is certainly always been a prerequisite.

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For my support for this that it goes well beyond a casino to hotels, and I.

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Hope, offices and retail and other things that will be on that 700 acres of land.

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Then I couldn't go so far as councillor layton didn't describe it as a bad deal.

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For the city, no such thing is a bad deal for the city that produces 5,000 or more.

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Jobs for people who need them and many of those jobs are going to go to local.

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People and so there's no such thing as that being a bad deal.

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You won't hear me describing a bad deal out of thousands of jobs for people.

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However, I will say- and I have a motion I forgot to put it up, but I have a motion.

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Which which takes suggests to in and commence to you referring councillor.

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Thompson's motions to the city, management and I'll be very open about.

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Why I think that is a better per approach for us to take when you are in.

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The midst of negotiating an agreement, which is what we're doing here, I think.

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It is better for us to have our negotiators. We are like the board of.

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Directors we're the deciding body and council davis was right when she said.

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That we make the decision on what's acceptable ultimately, but it is the job.

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Of our very competent professional staff to negotiate the best deal that they can.

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And I think the appropriate way to handle this in a spirit of partnership.

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With the people who are the proponents, who also have to agree to this as part.

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Of the community benefits agreement is to go back to them. On these things, much.

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In the spirit that somebody was saying a couple of minutes ago about saying well.

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Look, we hope that they have an open mind about these things, and I know some of.

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Them are probably even in this room, and I think the points that I've certainly.

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Heard mentioned that need to be discussed further with them. Our.

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Childcare, they are what I'll call harder and perhaps more ambitious targets and.

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The important question of representation, a representation meaning at the table as.

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We go forward and I actually again take a very different view than deputy mayor.

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Minh and wrong about this, I don't know how you could possibly have the kind of.

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Open and collaborative arrangement and call it a true partnership with respect.

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To producing these community benefits, which are important if the people who.

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Are going to help you do that are not at the table? A partnership involves by.

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Definition, people sitting at the table working on something together, and so I.

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Don't I don't pretend to sit here and prescribe, who should be there, and this.

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Is why I want councillor thompson's motions to go to the staff? I think it's.

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Up to the staff to go and talk to the proponent and say: look somebody needs to.

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Be at the table who can help with this from the community benefits world or the.

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Labor movement, it doesn't matter to me, I don't see any inconsistency in that at.

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All and I point as well to some of the very successful programs we've had with.

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The carpenters and with liuna and others where they have been at the table and.

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They've actually helped to deliver the training and other kinds of things that have been most valuable in that regard, and I want to so, I would just say, send.

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It off to the to the staff, ask them to report directly back, as my motion says,.

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To council on what progress they've made or not- and hopefully that means we'll.

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Have a stronger community benefits agreement but let's try to get an.

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Agreement first before we try to do something that is not in that spirit. If.

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We try to impose terms. I want to make one final, very important comment. If I.

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Might then that- and I speak only for myself as the mayor and is obviously a.

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Member of council, I will be watching very carefully to see how our commentary.

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About these matters today is responded to by these proponents, because I'm not a.

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Strong component of casinos in and of themselves, I think these kinds of points.

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Where we are here to protect the public interest, partnership with the proponents and others involved, including, would buy an.

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Entertainment, it will be very important to see how they respond and I think that.

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Certainly, for myself I'll be watching very closely as we approach the council.

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Meeting how they respond to that, because I think these are important points I.

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Don't want to prescribe the answer, but I sure do want to give our staff a good.

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Chance to go and and get some things that I think will help us to have a.

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Better partnership and something better for the community, it isn't a bad deal. It.

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Just needs to be a little better. A bad deal is not a bad deal if it's got 5,000.

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Jobs attached to it or more, but it needs to be a little better in the cut in the context of that partnership. So I will conclude on that note, with apologies for.

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The 40 seconds- and I think now, if you have madam clerk, the motions here I.

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Believe I was told by josephine that mine is too dealt with first, because the.

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Referral motion of part of the part of the emotions of councillor thompson, so I.

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Will call the question and on the motion that I put here that's in front of you.

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On the screen to refer to the interim city manager for report back to council.

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On the 2018, the results of some consultation on councillor thompson's.

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Motions, so I'm ready to ready to the question all right, all those in favor.

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Opposed carried all right, which one is next caster' palacios motion is next.

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This is to do with communicating to the government of ontario about about our.

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Our share, as it were, ready for the question all those in favor pose caring.

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Counselor of allows motion a which is to do with the childcare all those in favor.

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I'm a recorded vote sure accorded vote and canna slip, allows motion a okay.

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Those in favor councillor ainsley cancer, bulow councillor burnside councillor.

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Digiorgio maher tori cancer palacio, councillor pasternak cancer, robinson.

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Councillor thompson, those opposed, I think, deputy mayor deputy mayor man,.

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Wong, how did you- yes, counselor deputy mayor, minam wong in.

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The affirmative, please cary's. Thank you. Next motion be.

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To do with the hiring, although ready for the question, all those in favor pose.

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Carried next is item, as amended then, and ready for that will have a recorded vote.

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On that, those in favor of the item, as is the staff report as mandate councillor.

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Ainsley can subala cancel burnside counselor to giorgio maher tori cancer.

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Palacio cancer robinson councillor thompson.

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Those opposed deputy mayor, minam wong plans to pasternak motion carries thank.

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You very much and thank you very much to all the people that came and spent the time today. It's a long day. I know for you and we appreciate all the input and.

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I hope you feel it was taken seriously. So, ladies and gentlemen, I think we're.

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Actually doing quite well believe it or not so meritorious the sort of so. Ladies.

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And gentlemen, you just those could leave the room, could leave quietly. We've got.

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Business to carry on with here so what we have left to deal with just so you.

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Know we have the development charges by law, review which is next. Then we have a.

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Couple of matters that were held, we have some deputations on that and then we.

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Have I think, three relatively short matters, including the smart city.

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Challenge with a presentation excuse me we're trying to carry on with the.

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Meeting and everybody know their are people who want to leave, and so do we eventually so we've got. We've got to carry on our business here and members.

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Of the committee, if I could ask you to come back because I know you're in the.

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Room so we have to technically have quorum, but I want to make sure we're paying attention here. Are there any castlevanias li you had? I.

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Have two I merit oriole. I have motions a motion on each one. They want the one.

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Struck me- and I don't know whether, on the nuclear, whether that's gonna, prompt.

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A long discussion, in which case I can't really treat it as a quick release, item.

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I can put up there. I've had both of the motion circulated. Okay,.

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Good, I just let's see I'm just trying to figure out who's in the room, because I.

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Can't proceed here if we don't have sufficient numbers yeah we're short. I.

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Don't know everybody went counselor. Burnside is here that six counts for by.

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Law allowed everywhere by a lot of seven, so they all right all right. Please could.

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You please come back to the table: counselor burnside, deputy mayor barlow.

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We need to keep forum here. Do you want to just put up if you would, madam clerk.

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Counselor means these motion on nuclear.

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But I can speak to a briefly meritorious is so my words in the east end in.

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Toronto: this is a motion that basically replicates what the region of durham.

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Windsor ontario immerse burg, bruce peninsula they're. All asking for the.

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Same conditions around safeguards to be put in place for a public awareness.

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Program, if there's any issues in any of the nuclear power facilities in ontario.

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If there's general concurrence that people are satisfied with this and.

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Treating it as something where there aren't a lot questions to staff or any or sand people wishing to speak, we can just call the.

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Question on it, if people think it needs to be put over, we can do that. Okay, well,.

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Then I'm ready to call the question on it. Then all those in favor opposed.

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Carried and then that would make item as amended, we'd have to vote on that or was.

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The report just to be received for information, okay,.

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Well then, we're well then I'll. Just ask for the question on the item of the.

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Report to be received by the committee as well all those in favor opposed karen.

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Okay and what was your, the other one, you said you have so the other one is number.

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13, what in heaven's name to possibly cause you to hold that acreage and.

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Tonnage: taxation system for railway rights away. I have a motion meritorious.

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So this basically stems do this basically stems from my appointment by.

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The city of toronto and the board of directors of the antero good roads.

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Association there's a number of municipalities across the province, so.

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The current practice is included in the city of toronto for railway right of.

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Ways we tax railway companies based on acreage, we're one, a few provinces and.

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One in ontario that does that I'm sorry in canada that does that there's a.

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Movement across a number of municipalities in ontario that the.

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Taxation be done done based on tonnage. We have some of the largest railroad.

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Terminals in the in ontario that come through toronto we'd see a lot more.

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Money based on our tonnage then on the acreage one of the issues that we're.

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Having with the railroad companies is actually getting them to release this.

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Information to us- and I think that's mainly- stems from the fact that they.

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Would have to substantially increase what they pay to municipalities in.

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Ontario in particular toronto, and so this is basically asking staff to.

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Continue to negotiate with the provincial government and the railroad.

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Companies all right, I think it's a fairly straightforward request to have.

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Our treasurer continue to work with the province to see if we can get this chain.

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A basis of taxation changed and thereby get more money for you, because it.

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Reflects the traffic as opposed to the narrow, and I think another number of.

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Municipalities, including those in northern ontario, would appreciate our.

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Leadership on this matter are there any questions of staff. People want to ask.

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Any speeches people want to make otherwise I'm ready just to call the question on this and all right, then we'll call the question all those in.

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Favor of the amendment and then the item has amended all those in favor opposed.

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Carrie, okay, queue think sorry, I'd hate to have.

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Made them wait, but the smart city challenge is gonna, be last. The next.

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Thing we are going to deal with is the development charges by low review. I'm.

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Sorry, what did you did? We not? Oh, we left over the new business item review just.

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So people could have a look it's on the pink paper. It was the. It was a very straightforward housekeeping matter to do with the capital budget of the solid.

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Waste and- and we just left it so people could read it because it was handed out.

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And it was brought here by the budget chair because of the failure of that.

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Committee to be able to carry out its work, so are people ready for the.

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Question on that probably wouldn't even been held if it had just been on the.

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Agenda all those in favor opposed kara, okay, so on the development review, I'm.

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Gonna relinquish the chair for just a very short time. I've just got to go to.

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Make a brief speech at a dinner, like literally very brief just around the.

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Corner and the deputy mayor is gonna take the chair. We have some deputations.

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To start with, on monday three four five six seven, so I can't leave until.

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Somebody else comes back all right. That's fine, we'll start danielle chin.

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Building industry build building industry and land development association you've had a long day yeah. No, it's okay! I'm not saying that to just.

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Slow you down, I'm saying it's a long day in terms of your patience waiting to be heard. Thank you for being here a good evening, mayor toria members of.

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The executive committee, my name, is danielle chen and I'm here as a senior.

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Manager, policy and government relations at the building industry and land.

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Development association build is a non-for-profit trade association.

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Representing 1500 member companies and today I'm going to speak to you about.

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The economic importance of our industry, the effects of the development charges.

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And the revised proposal that you have in front of you today in the staff.

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Report so in the spirit of economic development, I'd like to highlight that.

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The building industry is a core driver to toronto's economy, new residential.

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Development creates jobs and encourages non-residential development in 2016.

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Alone, the residential construction industry in toronto generated more than.

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68,000 on-site and off-site jobs in new home building renovation and repairs and.

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It's one of the city's largest employers, these jobs, paid for million in wages and.

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Contributed 11.5 billion in investment value to the local economy.

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Our industry is fully committed to pay its fair share of growth, related costs.

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But increasing costs have become very unsustainable. On average taxes, a.

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Municipal charges account for twenty five or twenty percent of the price of a.

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New home and when new new charges are fully implemented.

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Dc's will nearly double to almost 80 thousand looking at the numbers. It's.

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Clear that new homebuyers in the city of toronto are bearing a heavy weight for.

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The cost of new infrastructure, so it's important that it is implemented fairly.

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And in terms of the review built has been actively engaged in technical.

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Working group meetings with city staff, with the objective of reviewing the.

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Fairness and reasonableness of the dc's, in accordance with the act build, has.

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Been very aligned with other groups as well, such as neigh up real pac and gta.

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The consultation process has been a very, very meaningful, and in november it.

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Basically took full swing today you have before you a staff report.

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That includes a proposed compromise agreement that was established between.

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Builds and the city through very active discussions with our industry, the.

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Revised proposal is in an effort to mitigate the effects on new homebuyers.

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That have already assumed and planned for certain costs, and this includes a 9%.

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Reduction in the quantum and a phasing in of the increases through our.

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Discussions build has also raised significant concerns about their.

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Practice of requiring developers to pay dc's on the issuance of first.

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Above-Grade permit and we're going to be engaging with staff further following.

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The enactment of the bylaw, the key sentiment that I want to deliver today.

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Is that this compromise is by no means perfect, but it is very much an.

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Improvement to what you had before you in january and throughout this process.

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We've expressed the concerns that heavy increases can have the adverse effects.

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On projects being delayed, we're not completely certain that this transition.

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Will mitigate all that, we need to mitigate in terms of negative impacts.

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But we definitely do appreciate the movement that has happened on this file.

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Since january, and as such, build toronto chapter is agreeing not to object. This.

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Revised proposal in the interest of keeping things moving in the city of.

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Toronto and providing some leeway for pre-sold agreements to be protected. We.

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Appreciate this executive committee's willingness to also listen to our.

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Members through the past few months, in closing, I just want to thank you for the.

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Opportunity to address you today and ask you to support the staff recommendations.

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In the report, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Miss.

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Chen and you got the patient deputy bonus. If sorry, I tried how the problem.

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You did well are there questions of this deputy. We just ask you know: we've.

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Interacted over the years on various issues, but certainly when I go to public.

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Meetings, I have a lot of development in my ward.

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People in this room know that bayview avenue, yonge and eglinton.

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In the park area and I spent a lot of evenings at public meetings and every.

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Time I go to a public meeting, there's always two or three questions about.

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Developers and dc's and our developers paying their share of infrastructure in.

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Our city, so are you aware of that sentiment out there that public.

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Certainly in my ward, I'm not going to speak for other councillors, but in my ward, people are saying our developers, who are.

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Really it's a bit of a heyday or it feels that way. Certainly in the last.

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Several years, certainly, if you look at yonge and eglinton, I think it's.

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Unprecedented the level of growth there are you aware of that sentiment from.

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Residents that they feel that developers need to pay pay their share. I guess in.

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Response to that through you, mr. mr. chair, I would I would say that, yes, we.

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Are as an industry aware of that sentiment, I think everyone would sort of.

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Look to developers to pay more, and I assure you that you know there's a.

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Rigorous exercise that your staff go through through the background study to.

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Make sure that they can collect as much as they can and then we're on the other.

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Side of it, making sure that you know everything is allocated like reasonably.

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Through the methodology, so I don't, I don't think that there's any sort of.

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Lost you know revenue that that's sort of gone through the process. How would.

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How would you, how would you, what would your feedback be on the process there.

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Were the review of these dc's, my understanding its, I mean I'd, I stopped.

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This but it's every five years right: what comes your feedback on that process?.

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So we've been finding that it does come forward earlier than anticipated and.

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Then, because of that, it is challenging to assume costs as a part of business.

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Plans, so I guess that's just part of the reason why, when we asked for transition.

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You know we really do need it as a part of those but plans that have already.

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Been put in place? Okay, that's it! Thank you ex consular robertson, other.

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Questions of this deputy okay, thanks to miss jen, very, very much.

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Appreciate it so that brings us to in underwood chief executive officer.

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Habitat for humanity, another patients- all I said, another patient soul. My.

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Deputation begins with good morning, and something on this agenda has to come at.

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The end, then, it's just it's only item three, but it just took this long to get.

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Here, thank you for being here, go ahead, having been in and out all day, I.

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Actually want to say to you: it's been really impressive, watching you in action.

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So, as a citizen and a leader of a nonprofit in this city, just listening to.

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The thoughtfulness and attentiveness that you put to these very complex.

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Issues, I don't usually spend this much time watching you, and so I thank you for.

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What you're doing I'm here today to express my wholehearted support for one.

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Aspect of the report before you and that's the one regarding the conversion.

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Of the toronto home ownership assistance program into a development charges.

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Deferral in january of this year, the urban land institute published this book.

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Building equitable cities and it basically rules around it's grounded in.

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Three premises, one of them is that equitable and inclusive cities are the.

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Most vibrant and economically successful. The second is for affordable. That.

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Affordable housing with access to transit and amenities and jobs is a key.

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Underpinning of equitable cities and that intentionality in the city's use of.

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Its resources and in the policies that you said in that city said, is an.

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Essential driver in realizing equitable cities, so the recommendation to defer.

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Development charges, in our view, is a is a perfect example of intentional action.

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In building an equitable city, and as I think you know for for a development.

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Charge deferral program for us at habitat, gta and for other nonprofit.

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Ownership providers will enable us to build more homes with the resources that.

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We have, I think everyone understands, that those homes that we build will be transformational for the families.

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Living in them in terms of how their kids do, how they do, but beyond that for.

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Us as of city those homes that this program will help us build, will increase.

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The supply of affordable housing in the city, both by the homes themselves and.

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The rental units that are vacated as people move out into those homes it will.

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Still generate a positive return for the city on the development charges that.

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Will be paid with a with interest at a future date, it will reduce the.

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Administrative costs of the affordable or administrative burden of the.

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Affordable housing program and it gives us more positive steps towards a more.

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Equitable city for all, so I just want to close by saying we at habitat.

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Appreciated the opportunity to work with the other, affordable housing providers.

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With finance with the affordable housing office on getting to and exploring the.

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Options here- and we are fully committed to working with our partners and with.

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Finance and affordable housing office on sorting out the details of the program.

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To come back to the affordable housing committee, nine seconds left, I was just.

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Gonna say: congratulations that was well done. Are there questions of the deputy.

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Well, may I just say to use and to return the favor. I think many of us, probably in.

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This room have been out to various builds over time and just are aware of.

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The work that you do and we see that too, and thank you very much for that and.

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Thank you for taking the trouble to come down and comment on this today and for your patience. Well, it's important to us. Thank you very much. Thanks much.

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Appreciated heather tremaine options for homes.

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That's no problem, that's all we just want to make sure. I called her name in case that she was somewhere in the environs and we didn't want her to think.

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After all this time that we've just friend that, if okay well, that brings us.

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Then, to to questions of staff on the matter in front of us and so I'll see if.

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There's anybody nobody here who is not a member of the committee they've all.

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Dispensed with us are there questions from members of the committee on the.

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Development charge bylaw report, councillor robinson.

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How did we end up where we are now based on the report with lots of negotiations.

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Meetings, what was the process that got us to where we are with these numbers?.

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Through the chair, we've commenced the process some nine months ago, when we.

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Engaged the development community in the calculation and in the calculation of.

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The development charges by law we've had extensive discussions with all the.

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Stakeholders we arrived at a background study in draft we've, had technical.

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Reviews of the assumptions and the methodologies that are used in that.

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Background study to arrive at the quantum of the charges and through that.

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Process we've been able to agree on the methodology and the quantum which.

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Reflects it and about 85% increase to the current rates, one of the issues that.

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Was raised at the last meeting, the public meeting held in january was the.

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Degree to which we phase in those charges and we've agreed to phase them.

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In over a two-year period, where 50% of the charge will come, 50% of the increase.

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In the charge will be implemented upon bylaw expiry, which is november 1st.

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A year later, 30% of the increase will be implemented so that will effectively.

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Have an 80% increase of the of the levy done within a year of baal expiry and.

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The balance will happen two years thereafter, there were a number of other.

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Stakeholders that are indicated concerns with respect to policies and we've been.

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Able to deal with those, and these primarily dealt with how we treat.

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Affordable housing providers, as well as the rental apartment markets we've made.

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A number of relief provisions provided certain relief provisions in the bylaw.

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To address those concerns, and it seems to us that everybody appears to be.

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Satisfied with the resolution and how would it compare to what we did lot the last round so the last round, the last bylaw.

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Was implemented in 2013 at that time we were faced with 70% increase in the.

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Rates and again and they were phased in over a two-year period. Sorry, what year.

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Was it that was in 2013 2013? Yes, the bylaw has a life of five years and.

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Unless it's updated and amended within that five year period it becomes stale.

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Okay, thank you very much. That's helpful. Thank you. Councillor robinson other.

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Questions of staff: okay, then, if we can move on from that two speakers who.

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Wishes to speak accounts about deputy mayor. Thank you. I have a motion as staff.

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Mentioned there were a few issues that we had asked staff to work on after the.

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January presentation of the report- and I have to thank them because they actually.

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Went and met with the not only the industry, but also you know the.

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Universities that we had issues with the rental sector that we had issues with.

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And the affordable homeownership providers that we had issues with so.

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We've we've actually created a number of solutions that that I think are very.

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Good they're going to be creating the opportunity, for example, of from how we.

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Heard from habitat for humanity of increasing the number of units that.

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We're gonna be having in our city through affordable, homeownership and.

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This the ferol program- this is something actually that the sector had been.

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Advocating for quite some time also the the rental rebate program that is being.

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Proposed through this, this report is something that, for a long time, the.

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Sector had been asking for, and the only issue that we're still working on were.

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Almost there, I think, is really the secondary suites and, and I'm hoping that.

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By council, we'll have it all resolved and and we're gonna be able to to get a.

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Report that, as the industry said, you know they're not happy about it.

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Obviously, who's happy about paying more for anything, but that they acknowledge.

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That the methodology was applied correctly, that there's consideration.

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Given to the sector in the way that is being implemented, and that is going to.

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Be responding to some of the housing policies that we have in our city, so not.

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Only are we having a huge increase in the percentage that is going to be given.

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To affordable housing, I think, is that, if I remember correctly, is it two hundred.

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And seventy percent increase that is going to go from the dc's to the.

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Affordable housing sector, we know we all know well that housing is a major issue.

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In this in the city that were you know, in order to continue to attract jobs, to.

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Continue to have an equable city, it's an issue that needs to be addressed, and so.

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We we have to do it at different points in time and and have housing policy be.

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The ones leading a lot of these things and dc's could be a good tool to have an.

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Impact on our housing policies- and I think that from january to today, what.

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We've done is have this revenue tool that we have in the city of toronto and.

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Really have it talking to our housing policy that we're trying to create and.

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The way that we plan our city so bringing together our our housing policy.

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Our planning and our finance department- and I think we have some some good.

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Policies in front of us some good recommendations, and I thank staff for.

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All the work and the sectors for coming to the table and and developing some of.

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These solutions, thank you, deputy mayor of iowa. Are there any questions of the.

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Mover others wishing to speak I'll just say a couple of words. If I might first.

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Of all, I want to say thank you to the staff again to our acting chief.

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Financial officer: well, I have I have a motion to that. I'm moving in in the stead of councillor crawford that proves the establishment of an.

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Obligatory reserve fund account name developed the charge of shelter services.

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And there's to be no contribution put in at the outset, but something that he was.

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Going to do if he'd been here, I guess that he was so if there any questions of.

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Staff about that motion they'd be better to ask them of the staff than of me. I'm.

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Not sure there's a provision for that in the rules, but so I'll put that on the.

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Table I want to thank the staff one in particular the the active chief.

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Financial officer, but also others involved from the planning staff and.

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Elsewhere, what I'm happiest about in terms of this? The list, when I say happy.

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I don't want anybody, that's gonna end up paying for this to misunderstand, but you.

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Know when councillor robinson correctly made reference to the fact people ask us about development. I'm asked when I go around the city, probably even more.

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Frequently than she might be asked about, whether developers are paying their fair.

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Share I'm asked how it could be that we allowed over so many years going all the.

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Way back so much development to take place without the accompanying.

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Infrastructure, and what I'm happy about here is that I think what the staff did.

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Was put together a complete list, a very complete list of the things we must do.

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When it comes to transit projects and other things that are gonna accompany.

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Growth and that must accompany growth if we're gonna, try and keep up, and so in.

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That sense, that's what ended up compiling the list that led to the.

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Initial number of more than a hundred percent increase in these fees and then.

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There have been discussions that have taken place that have led to some moderation and that I don't think without sacrificing anything. That's on.

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The list and a transition period that I think is fair and consistent. We've done.

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In the past- and I think those things reflect really just a need for a degree.

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Of sensitivity on our part to transition from one regime of fees to another, to.

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Maarten the fact that we're operating in a marketplace we meaning both ourselves.

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But also the development industry are operating in a marketplace that changes all the time. Just because that's the way the world is nowadays end to. I think the.

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Important question of the public interest, which is our responsibility.

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Being best addressed by a resolution in this manner, as opposed to other things,.

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That might have transpired and so to me watching as this unfolded and as we went.

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Through this further period of consultation that this committee requested and instructed be done, resulting in this report.

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Here today, with the concurrence of the largest portion of the building industry,.

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As being as it being fair, I'm sure they'd much rather than if we were coming back with something that was lower and had a much longer transition.

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Period but bottom line, I think they've recognized that we do have to build this.

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Infrastructure, we have to pay for it that growth is in this case, paying for.

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Growth and that this is something that is, as you heard, I said something that.

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They're they're content with, and so on that basis I would just commend this and.

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I will commend councillor crawford motion only because he was supposed to.

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Move it and I'm sure if it's council crawford and he's the budget chief, he knows what he's doing and somebody on our staff has recommended this needed to.

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Be done so on that note I'll conclude my own remarks and we can proceed if there's no other speakers to the question so first.

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I guess was the councillor george or I'm sorry you're ready to go. We had this.

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This is the only motion, then, to a man where's, the other one. It seems well of.

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Course so we deal with them in order that first.

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Counts: their bylaws motion to report directly to council on the elimination.

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Of development charges for secondary dwelling units, all those in favor.

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Opposed carry. The second motion is the one that councillor crawford asked that.

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I move in instead, which is to establish this obligatory reserve fund, account.

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Name: development, charge of shelter services all those in favor opposed.

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Carried and the item as amended, all those in favor opposed carrie. I believe.

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Now we had the one matter left and again talk about patience, our friends from the.

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Smart cities challenge had a deck prepared that I think has been.

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Circulated to you and I think, what we're going to do, rather than have a.

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Presentation that we were counting on was to have it circulated to all of us. I.

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Can tell you I had a chance to go through at the last day or two, and I.

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Think if you listen to all the commentary today about the challenge of.

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Trying to deal with inequity and in our city and the helping people get on their.

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Feet our smart city that what this is essentially as our bid or our.

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Tree into a contest that could win a huge prize, but it's all about bringing.

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Digital services, I mean I'm oversimplifying a little bit, but bringing digital services is some of the more disadvantaged areas of the city.

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That have what I call a digital deficit. You know where they just don't have.

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High-Speed availability and so on and our project is going to put that forward.

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And I think the intention was that we would just receive the report, as was.

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Contemplated by the recommendation itself and not hear a presentation that.

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Is no disrespect for the work that's gone on. There's a lot of hard work on this and for our best wishes for success in this contest, which will benefit.

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Toronto immensely, if we do or to the deputies who came, I think there were a.

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Couple people who want to speak in favor of this, but I just think in light of the.

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Hour that we wanted to just proceed to to receive the report, but countries who.

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Did you want to? I just said I just had a quick point of clarification. Myra tory.

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The I appreciate everything that mr. combs and mr. mica are doing. I just want.

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Some clarification that by receiving this sorry and mr. williams, one of the.

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The neighbourhoods that's outlined in the report is in in the middle of my.

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Ward and the kingsroad galloway horton park, and I just want to make sure that.

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We receive this report and the work is still gonna go forward at lorenson or.

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Lawrence and galloway could somebody will put that as a.

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Question to staff: can somebody just answer that question mr. hall yeah, so we.

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Use some illustrative neighborhoods in the in the over in the proposal that.

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Will go in next week to the federal government, so we can have more.

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Conversations about that, if you'd like counselor, but that was one of the illustrative neighborhoods I would like to thank you. I think I think this is.

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Actually something that we're gonna circulate this to all members of council as well, we'll commit itself to its a very worthy project for us to put forward both in the in the sense of the social justice aspect of it, but also the.

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Technology and smart cities- I think it's a very it's a good idea. So on that note.

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I'll ask if you could vote then on the question of receiving this report. Did.

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You want to speak, I'm sorry, counselor thompson. The technology advocate had.

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Asked me to move a motion on her behalf and the motion.

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We'll put it on the screen like she has discussed it with mr. myko and basically.

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It is asking for a provincial digital literacy day and asking council to ask.

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The province to designate may 30th 2019 for such a day. Its extensive reason it.

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Makes a whole lot of sense for all the reasons that you described as part of.

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This particular report and, of course, engaging in getting young people really.

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Involved in this notion, we had a last week- I think- are this month. Was the.

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Financial literacy literacy month and and so it stands a reason that we really.

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Should be looking at this as an opportunity clearly, if robins had.

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Designated that we wouldn't be required to do this at this particular point in.

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Time but kara holland is asking that we move this by moving this on our behalf.

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Okay, are there any questions of the mover or other questions? Other people wishing to speak on this all right? Well, then, what.

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We'll do is we have the one motion here, which is the motion just put by.

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Councillor thompson on behalf of councillor, holland and I'll: ask the.

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Question I'll call the question on that all those in favor opposed carried councillor, barlow, voted in favor and then the item to be received. The item.

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The report to be received on this item all those in favor opposed carried with.

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Thanks again for your patience and for your hard work on this and best wishes.

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In the competition to us all any other business that we have to do with today,.

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You have something just motion to adjourn all of the beer carried thank.

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You thank you very much.