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THUNDER BAY — Thunder Bay Mayor Ken Boshcoff could be in line to join dozens of his big-city colleagues in receiving enhanced ‘strong mayor’ powers from the province.
The powers also allow mayors to pass bylaws with minority support at council in some cases, and to veto certain bylaws, where they believe those issues involve provincial priorities like housing. While some have criticized the strong mayor powers as anti-democratic, Boshcoff said they would in fact help “rebalance” the relationship between council and city administration.
City officials, however, say the province didn’t reach out to request a pledge until June, months after asking 29 other “large and fast-growing” cities to do so. Unlike the 26 communities initially asked to submit a pledge, the province did not assign Thunder Bay a target for new home builds in its pledge, said Thunder Bay city manager Gale.
“The city has been working for some time on housing issues,” Gale said. “We were [already] doing a housing study, we just presented information on Canada’s housing accelerator grant funding.” Boshcoff appeared to disagree, saying the city needs to do more to open up development, including extending city services like water and sewer lines for new subdivisions.
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