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• W323458081 abstract "The marathon filibuster that has gripped the Ontario legislature is no doubt the biggest filibuster ever staged. The filibusters in the U.S. Senate, the home of filibusters, pale in comparison to the 24-hour-a-day filibuster (in its seventh day as I write this) staged by the opposition parties in the Ontario legislature. The opposition parties are determined to delay two controversial bills now before the legislature: Bill 103 and Bill 104. If passed, Bill 103 would amalgamate the six municipal governments that make up Metro Toronto into one large megacity to be known simply as Toronto. The opposition parties want the bill delayed until after the municipal elections in the fall. In introducing Bill 103 the government has already ignored the democratic process in Toronto whereby 75% of the citizens voted against the megacity concept. Opponents of the bill believe that the government wants to download many of its present responsibilities - especially for social services - onto the municipalities so as to finance the government's 30% reduction in personal income tax rates that was an election promise. Under Bill 103, municipalities would assume responsibility for public housing, health programs, and the cost of homes for the aged and infirm and would also pick up 50% of the cost of social assistance that is now largely paid for by the province. Municipalities would also pay the full cost of public transit, ferries, airports, and provincial roads running through their boundaries. The government believes this is a good tradeoff since the province will relieve the municipalities of $5.4 billion for education that is now being financed by property taxes. Premier Mike Harris and his Conservative government contend that, when the province assumes the total cost for education, the municipalities will be better off and will be able to reduce property taxes in the long run. Municipal politicians do not buy this argument. They are loath to accept more responsibility for welfare when its costs are as unpredictable as the fluctuations of the economy. They know that costs in the near future will probably soar with continued unemployment and an aging population. Under Bill 103, the provincial government would take over the cost of education completely, which in turn would allow the municipalities to concentrate on what the government says are services of a local nature. The problem municipalities will be facing is raising money to pay for the added responsibility for social services. Apologists for the neoconservatives and the strategists of the right advise governments at the highest levels to transfer the responsibility for expensive social programs to local governments. Because the power to tax effectively isn't there, social programs would disappear, and the highest levels of government would have accomplished their ideological agenda: reducing or eliminating social programs altogether. Bill 104, the second important bill before the legislature that could be sidetracked by the filibuster, is the Fewer School Boards Act of 1997. This bill would reduce the number of school boards in the province from 166 to 66. Of these 66 large school districts, 29 would be public, 26 would be Catholic, and 11 would be francophone. It is interesting to note how this filibuster has dominated the Ontario legislature for at least a week. As I have been observing this marathon filibuster, I have recalled the 1939 Frank Capra movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The present Ontario filibuster is not as interesting or as amusing as the filibuster staged by Jimmy Stewart in his role as Sen. Smith. But today, modern technology has provided a very effective way for the opposition to delay legislation. To slow the progress of the Toronto megacity bill, the opposition parties introduced 12,500 amendments. Eight thousand of these resulted from creating an amendment for every single street in Metro Toronto, based on a computer directory of street names. …" @default.
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