POL346Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Province, Neoliberalism, Longrun
11 Dec 2017
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Pol346 s1 l5 restructuring urban governance part 2: the case of toronto. We have seen no coherent vision, no consistency even during metropolitan toronto, and we have seen how the province manifested its shift from jurisdictional rescaling to task-specific rescaling. Drives down to two ways: institutional reorganization and task-specific initiatives. We have seen this puzzle that something was not fitting to amalgamate. There were neoliberal commitments and policies but they did not address regional competitiveness as a whole but instead created intra-regional competition (not what everyone else was setting up or desiring to happen). There is significant provincial authority to restructure local governments since there is no constitutional impediments that protect them. The province has a significant power to do whatever it wanted with the local governance structure. There are two ways of involvement with local government: Policy making/task-specific rescaling: this includes affordable housing, transit, tax sharing, policies, educational policies, etc.
