The Ontario Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Canada condemns in the strongest terms the Ford government’s Bill 60, the so-called “Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act.” This omnibus legislation is a full-scale assault on tenants, democratic planning, and local democracy, designed to inflame the province’s devastating housing crisis and serve corporate interests.
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The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) strongly condemns the passing of the Ford government’s Bill 6, The Safer Municipalities Act. This legislation gives municipalities and police sweeping new authority to issue trespass notices and forcibly remove unhoused individuals from public spaces, targeting those who have already been abandoned by the Read more…
The Ford government’s stated reason for removing 7,400 acres of land from the Greenbelt protection was to build 50,000 homes in order to alleviate the housing crisis. This was a lie and a scam. These lands were removed to provide developers with massive profits – there is no evidence that this land was ever needed to confront the housing crisis, and whether homes were ever built at all was always a secondary consideration.
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The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) condemns the actions of the City of Toronto and Toronto Police in their removal of people residing in public parks and the use of brutality and repression against encampment residents and supporters.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a series of crises in Ontario. One of them is the dramatic impact it has had in the housing sector. Homeless people have been exposed to the virus in overcrowded shelters. Encampments have grown exponentially as a result. Cities across the province have already or are threatening to bulldoze the encampments. The unemployment rate in Ontario has doubled since the pandemic began. After CERB finished and the emergency freeze on evictions was lifted in August, thousands of tenants were not able to keep up with their rent and have been evicted or are in the process of being evicted. These evictions are disproportionately low-income and racialized tenants.
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