The tax is actually their pay and police pay because they bank the money for their future and then change the name of the street and say we don't have money and say come refugees in Canada we can take care of you.
@TheJlee28 👍👍Considering the most recent scandal of them booking hours but not doing the job. I would have to agree. We won't mention the double dipping by employees with the drug policies & then selling opioids that they received from multiply Dr's.
What about Olivia Chow enjoying her high paid salary does not affect her. She does not consider how people are struggling with groceries rising food prices. Olivia is a horrible Mayor, so different to John Tory who was so reasonable
Name a major Canadian city that hasn't raised taxes, I'll wait. PS, Vancouver, a conservative ABC party raised them by 7%, so I guess Olivia is simply not as conservative as the conservatives? lol
No kidding. If people had bothered a) to vote (there was only a 20% participation rate in voting ), so who voted, -all of her leftists supporters. b) You get what you vote for, if you can't be bothered to vote to and also to take 10 minutes to learn about her track record you would have know how corrupt she was, Toronto got what it deserved. Don't vote , don't educate yourself don't complain.
She is proposing another 6% tax hike. Yes, she is right when she says this next budget will change the lives of Torontonians. It will put more people out on the streets. What a piece of work this mayor is. She is clueless.
Olivia Chau is Justin Trudeau on a city level. All she does acts. Breathy speak, waving hands.. Wow, how "passionate" she is! I wonder how dumb one should be to seriously digest this theater.
Not true. She's actually Jagmeet Singh on a City Level. If the NDP were to get in Federally, there would be a rampant increase in taxes, spending on social programs and increased wastefulness. I hope I don't get the chance to be right.
@@coryratke9621 I think you missed @hsepo 's point. I think they are talking about the ridiculous overly dramatized way of speaking. They went to the worst drama school ever. They have no concept that this way of speaking screams inauthenticity. It is like someone reading a story to little children. The night before Christmas comes to mind.....fantasy.
lmao you don't understand how anything works. Amazing. Sounds like someone who just rage votes every election rather than actually be informed. I live in the City that had the lowest tax increase in all of Canada and our roads, transit and housing are literally falling apart and infested with rats. Taxes provide benefits when a government alocates them appropriately, unless you are squirrel brained and have zero understanding of how government works. You the same type of person that doesn't realize beef would be 60$ pound if it the agriculture industry wasn't subsidized by taxes lmao zero economic understanding... it should be illegal for people like you to vote
It's better than what they were doing previously by raising development fees. But what'll help most is focusing on being a more efficient government and getting rid of red tape roles.
This is what you get for electing an NDP, more taxes! Olivia Chow wasted more than $12,000,000.00 on renaming Dundas square to Sankofa Square. How did that help Toronto taxpayers? Now she needs more of your money so she can waste it like she wants. Increasing property tax will only work on increasing rents, this increase will be passed to tenants. Thank you Toronto voters, ENJOY PAYING MORE TAXES!
the cost to rename the Dundas Square was $335,000, not $12,000,000. (i am not sure how you crunched that number) I am not trying to endorse Olivia's tax plan, I just want to correct your number.
@@daniellai7712 The overall cost will be in the millions, renaming the station alone was going to cost 1.7 million but TMU picked up the cost. You're correct that was the cost of renaming the square, but the entire street will be in the millions.
Well she has decreased our debt that Tory left significant but yes I’m tired of her pressuring us with taxes instead of pressuring Ford for more money.
Actually ford is spending billions removing them. I live Downtown Toronto and bike lanes are sorely needed. Enough of building Downtown Toronto to suit commuters from the suburbs - build it for the residents.
@@preetikapil5141We dont live in Florida I am a cyclist but cyclist dont obey the hwy traffic act thats waste of money for bicycle lanes you may be renting but we as home owners pay the tax
Raising property taxes 6.9% is going to increase rent costs by at least 10%, unless I'm missing something? Landlords just charge the tenants more to compensate, and more on top of that because they can. Genuinely baffled by this decision
There is nothing baffling about this. Socialists don't know how to manage finances. They believe that money is in itself valuable, not merely a unit of exchange for things that have actual value like property, labour, etc., so their solutions to problems will always be "Give us more money" even if it doesn't solve problems of supply (housing).
You are missing something. There's nothing crazy about this tax increase. As an example, if you own a 500k property, this would cost you only $250 PER YEAR, which is $20 per month. This will not increase rents by 10%.
@@kenmcintosh9480 Do you want 250$ going out of your pocket to the city to spend on Toronto City branded crack pipes to hand out? Or in your pocket to spend on groceries, a new pair of jeans, or seeing the dentist? The math goes for a 500k residential home in Toronto you pay $3331.37 a year in property tax to the city. This increase brings it up to $3561.23. Making the bill $296.77/month. And remember it wasn't even a year ago that it went up 10%. The average value of a home in Toronto is $1,067,186, not 500k. Making those city taxes $7110.38/year before the 6.9% increase. An increase of $490.62/year bringing the total up to $7601/year equal to $633.42/month. On average.
Same in Vancouver. Our property taxes went up a lot more than 6.9% than this year, and that's after nearly 20% hike in the past two years. They do this by revaluing your home to estimations that no one in the market would actually pay. They claim that our taxes went up "only 3.9%" this year, but the actual dollar amount is well over 10%. Clown world. Home ownership will be only for the upper class in Vancouver and Toronto. Those of us who are legacy homeowners because we bought three decades ago will be priced out of own homes because we don't be able to pay the taxes and upkeep anymore. Can't wait to get out of this town when I retire.
why would you keep increasing taxes? why not cut non essential services? why cant this government manage money property? we already pay too much taxes. should be fired.
Plus the illegals have a right to accommodation, 3 square meals, Medicare, free language classes, transit passes and all of that. My city in the prairies has seen a large influx of folks from Toronto. And it's likely you are bleeding tax payers. Only problem for us is they will vote the same way as they did in Toronto .
Thats not the plan… people are in for a big surprise over the next 10 years. Its going to get worse as the criminals are running the governments around the world
Seniors will be out on the street and those with rental property will pass the bill to renters making housing less affordable. Find another strategy Olivia!
15% tax increases in less than 2 years. What about the seniors that are on fixed income. They cant afford tax increase?????? Money to the Arts?!?!?! Mindful of our tax dollars? So what do you think the tax increase will do to renters affordability? If you really wanted to help on affordability of homes why don't you take away the municipal Land Transfer Tax for starters. The TTC more efficient, so does that mean the Eglinton and Finch LRT going to be up and running this year? Such shortsightedness.
Doesn’t affect renters, the tax increase for rental buildings is below the threshold that would trigger a rent increase. So most seniors should be protected.
One of the Mississauga mayors never raised taxes in 30+ years while in office Chow Chow being in 1.5 years And not only wants a increase But wants to pay for the mistake they make Like the cost of trying to rename Dundas to some former slaved holding tribe ...You voted for her You pay for that
Not remotely true. They were frozen for 1 year and maybe two. Then in 2013 Mississauga had to borrow $700 million because of chronic underfunding. When development charges ran out as open land was all developed, the accounting slight of hand had to stop. All the 905 municipalites benchmark local taxes and other service comparitors against one another and further afield to try to keep things in line. Can't say what Toronto does thought they seem quite a bit more interested in virtue signalling than fiscal probity. Mississauga and Brampton were definitely leaders in keeping tax increases down but there was not a 30 year freeze, (Seriously, htf would that even work with inflation??)
@@augurseerchow is also fighting unions, they want to increase pll wages by 3% and expect them to pay for their own healthcare premiums and cut off sick days. It’s gross.
@@Rhotz-ix8ll McCallion Mississauga ratepayers went a decade without seeing a property tax increase, And when it did it was lower than the surrounding cities The problem lay after she retired..While the new mayor had to deal with 280,000 to 750,000 pop jump..And demand for Go And tranist funding ..expansion etc etc
Tax, tax, more tax! Stop that, Olivia Chow! It's a waste of our tax money. There is no need for traffic wardens or extra time for libraries on the weekends. Out of luck, Olivia Chow!
Housing cost are sky high. Let’s raise our 6.9 taxes. Take food off my kid plate Thanks. Bye bye middle class This one is making sure we will need that government housing too
I think that you overestimate the average Torontonian voter. They did elect this person and will elect her replacement that will be the same circus of clowns.
The rent for "Yousef" are high. But, the taxes on the building where he lives are going to rise about 6.9 per cent, or more, which will be passed on to "Yousef" by his landlord. It should be remembered that the property taxes on these buildings, like the one in the Thorncliffe Park Drive area, where it sounds like "Yousef" lives, amount to about 25 per cent of the gross rent. The City is always increasing taxes, never lowering it.
@@Lucas-pe6fg this i totally agree with. Her 6.9% should be charged to those supposed areas that she is assisting cause my area doesn't see any of these things she is claiming
You can't keep raising TAXES and keep SPENDING OLIVIA! Cut backs on unessarry spending is needed. Reduce spending on street festivals and Libraries . Keep the libraries hours back to what it was before.
Olivia you need to consider the income of people before raising property tax by over 6% I know your intention can't be to make current home owners to lose their homes . But with the cost of utilities and food skyrocketing, that is what this property tax increase will amount to for many Toronto homeowners . I sincerely hope you will consider their income and increase or not accordingly. That information is readily available thanks to yearly income-tax.
How is 6.9% affordable? I get a very poor return on my taxes. Roads are not in a state of good repair. I don't use any offered city services as I can do most of it myself. I still have to clear the windrows that city staff see fit to deposit on my driveway. Sanitation services are inconsistent... so I am being forced to pay more for less. How does this save me money? ETA: City of Toronto should not get back into the housing business. At one point, they were known as Canada's biggest slumlord.
How about a pay decrease in politicians wages who want to increase taxes all the time. Close safe injection sites down and that'll save millions I mean it's just wasted it does not help anyone just keeps them hooked I'd rather money spent on rehab centers.
Unfortunately, the people who voted for her believe everything that she says. She isn't lying for our benefit. She's lying for her flock.
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Tax those landlords that have 2 storey home rented out to over 20 international "students" at once. Those landlords collect at least $50,000 per month from rentals. Average Canadian people are only lucky enough to have a place to live and daily meals to get by. Make her resign. Don't let her finish her term.
Well, you vote NDP or Liberal that's what you will get. They don't give a damn about Canadians as they know that immigrants always vote for them. So keep enjoying being enriched.
Torontonian middle-class people are working Uber Eats on weekends and taking second jobs after their full-time jobs every day just to pay mortgages and property taxes.... while Chow thinks they have private jets...
Just another politician who thinks problems can be solved by taking hard earned money from hard working residents and throwing their money at the problems. I don't see any cuts in beaurocracy. Nor any cuts in the city budget.
So I guess that guy is struggling he’s gonna struggle more with the taxes increasing maybe you should get your eye checked, I am so proud I didn’t vote for you and I hope you’re out next election
It's no surprise to me. Honestly the city did need to raise taxes but 9.5% last year followed by 6.9% this year is crazy. That is a total of 17.05% from two years ago. You can surely count on another increase next year as well.
@@Michael-pg7rv taxes did need to increase but the amount and how quickly is absurd. I don’t trust this lady or her lackeys to be able to spend this money responsibly especially since they’re spending almost $1 million to rename a damn street that 95% of Torontonians didn’t know the history of the first place
Why is she increasing property tax 2 years in a row by an absurd amount?!?!?!??!?! we pay a double municipal and federal on purchase already. Complete scam. She knows more than half the city are renters and not owners, so she can get away with doing this. Just keep in mind, the rents may go up for this
All she cares is homeless people or people who rents. Where is the money coming from ? Property taxes. How nice. We wre just cash cows. She is publishing homeowners who pay her salary.
At the beginning of the video, Mayor Olivia Chow attempts to justify property tax increases with a statement that "..housing costs are sky high" in a city where "..everyone belongs". Mayor Chow should ask herself WHY Toronto is in such bad shape- compared with its municipal neighbour to the north - the City of Vaughan, whose municipal budget focuses on the fundamentals, such as: maintaining physical transportation, water, wastewater, and public transit infrastructure, public health, education, parks, libraries and recreational facilities, snow and waste removal, police and fire services. The City of Vaughan balances its budgets every year. There are no billion dollar cost overruns, social assistance and social housing are NOT significant expenditures. Streets are in good condition. Crime, poverty and homeless encampments remain low or non-existent. There is no garbage in the streets, no gambling joints or marijuana dispensaries. And its annual property tax increases are modest by comparison with Toronto's.
Well all the homeless from Vaughan end up in Toronto so while they and Brampton and Mississauga undercut services their people come to toronto and overburden the systems here from hospitals to shelters……
A 10% increase to every household in Toronto should've been more than enough to cover whatever deficits/shortfalls the city had. Instead it barely had any noticeable effect and now she's asking for more because there was hardly any pushback last year.
Seeing that the vast majority of comments share the same sober perspective as mine still gives me hope for this country. God bless Canada. Vote her out please, WE NEED OUR COUNTRY BACK!!!!!
It's like listening to a child who believes we should all just go to our little happy place and forget it ever happened. I wonder where her happy place is?
"Happy days are here again. (Huh?)" "Our city politicians and bureaucrats, not to mention the mass of consultants, and their friends and hangers-on deserve our support ... Young couples already living in small one-bedroom apartments will soon be living in even smaller one-bedroom apartments, as our increased property tax on wealthy landlords are always passed on to these renters." "For drivers locked in gridlock, we are expanding our bike lanes on busy streets, complete with flower plots at the side of the road. This will make city driving even more intolerable." See Caribana costume pictures this last August. Yes, Olivia's raiment of intellectual honesty and common sense all comes from Bikini Village.
I hate when people keeps saying let’s raise taxes. Property tax and gas already went up significantly last week and I’m ready to axe the tax. Let’s go Pierre
Smh people got spoiled by do nothing Tory and think the city can function without revenue. Now we’re seeing the cost of those years of no increases finally by a mayor who has the balls to fix it.
They think everyone is highly paid like them. Perhaps Toronto citizens should be the ones to say the percentage they should get when it comes to their salaries. After all, we are the ones that employ them. I remember when I worked for the provincial government and Bob Rae said public servants had to have a decrease in their salaries. They should decrease their high salaries. As a senior on a fixed income, if this happens, I may end up losing my home. It’s always the little guy that suffers.
9.5 + 6.9 =16.4% in two years… this is her idea of making Toronto more affordable? She mentions nothing about improving our economy or helping small businesses. And let’s not forget gun crime is up 33%.
I think shes really talented. She spoke for 10mins and I could not find one thing that the tax increase would benefit my life in any shape or form. NDP you are something else. Just a waste of time and money.
To all of you City of Toronto hand puppets, cheap dollar store acting school trainees, shameless pretense of a human being, we hope that you sleep well at night knowing that you are so good at your job and never fail to deliver the highly crafted lies worth of an Oscar for the best comedy script. You may destroy lives in the process, but you wake up more people to the truth. Keep going on; you're doing a great job at that!
Why do they make those people stand behind politicians when they make these speeches. It's beyond ridiculous. Like, what is the message here? Those people are employees and they look incredibly uncomfortable having to stand there while these politicians babble on.
Olivia is full of it, the city wants high prices to get higher kickbacks. Rent control is still needed, but with prices already sky high it won't have much of an effect. Rent will never go down, homes will never be under the million mark again. There is too much growth. The city should push for massive rentals, but they won't, the land is too valuable. Toronto is screwed.
Looks like she is reading a teleprompter, and acting the script out to make it look genuine. More words upon words that sound wonderful! Drain the bloated city council and government instead of raising taxes. @05:33 "While the number of people killed & injured is the lowest in 5 years..." - not according to police data; homicides are up over 2022 and 2023 (71, 73 & 85 respectively). She conflated - killed & injured.
Leave it to the NDP to raise taxes when they don’t have any other solution while a carbon tax hike of 61% is around the corner from the federal NDP-Liberal government We have a bunch of losers running Toronto and our country
This mayor just keeps passing on the cost to homeowners. How about finding efficiencies? Those who want more services should pay for it - e.g. who needs libraries to stay open 7 days a week the current operating hours have worked for generations. Every new service should have to meet a cost-benefit criteria. Full cost of TTC should be reflected in fares not passed on to hapless homeowners. They should make more services pay as you go.
How about these overpaid city staff take a 6.9% reduction in pay.
They need to cut 25%
The tax is actually their pay and police pay because they bank the money for their future and then change the name of the street and say we don't have money and say come refugees in Canada we can take care of you.
@TheJlee28 👍👍Considering the most recent scandal of them booking hours but not doing the job. I would have to agree. We won't mention the double dipping by employees with the drug policies & then selling opioids that they received from multiply Dr's.
What about Olivia Chow enjoying her high paid salary does not affect her.
She does not consider how people are struggling with groceries rising food prices. Olivia is a horrible Mayor, so different to John Tory who was so reasonable
Keep spending money on changing Street Names instead of feeding the homeless and needy
This woman sounds insane.
_IS_ is the operative word
@@martintremblay4248 i don't feel sorry for torontonians! They did vote for it
she's out of touch
Lair.she.city.frud.very.badperson
Shecrazy.woman city.frud
Doug ford said she would raise taxes like crazy if voted in. I guess he was right.
Name a major Canadian city that hasn't raised taxes, I'll wait. PS, Vancouver, a conservative ABC party raised them by 7%, so I guess Olivia is simply not as conservative as the conservatives? lol
Yeah, what has Ford done while in office?
@ eliminate the license plate renewal.
@@SpoonableFreebs lmao 😂 ooh that’s sooooo big
No kidding. If people had bothered a) to vote (there was only a 20% participation rate in voting ), so who voted, -all of her leftists supporters.
b) You get what you vote for, if you can't be bothered to vote to and also to take 10 minutes to learn about her track record you would have know how corrupt she was, Toronto got what it deserved. Don't vote , don't educate yourself don't complain.
Somebody start a petition to have her removed!
And her team 😒🤯😡
Won't matter. The next clown will be the same. Your entire city Council is corrupt, and your voters are beyond help.
How about a 6.9 % staff pay reduction.
75%
50% staff reduction, then hold pay raises for 5 years. No more new hires.
No. Torontonians wanted her and her pledge to increase taxes. Here you go, enjoy
Have you ever heard of a socialist government reducing wages?
cut 10% city staff
She is proposing another 6% tax hike. Yes, she is right when she says this next budget will change the lives of Torontonians. It will put more people out on the streets. What a piece of work this mayor is. She is clueless.
Its on purpose not clueless
she's just following the Mark Cyst agenda
6.9% is not 6%. It is closer to 7%. Where did you study you H.S. math ?? at the 2+2 = 5, School of higher studies ??
You get what you vote for 👍
She is the Golden Child of Torontoonians. Enjoy
Olivia Chau is Justin Trudeau on a city level. All she does acts. Breathy speak, waving hands.. Wow, how "passionate" she is! I wonder how dumb one should be to seriously digest this theater.
Not true. She's actually Jagmeet Singh on a City Level. If the NDP were to get in Federally, there would be a rampant increase in taxes, spending on social programs and increased wastefulness. I hope I don't get the chance to be right.
And Doug Ford? How about all the kids who couldn't attend the science centre camps their parents already paid for?
@@coryratke9621 the liberals the ndp...samesame
Wait a min. I kkow they shut the science center at the last second. I hope they provided refunds. What inconvience.@PardonMyPresence
@@coryratke9621 I think you missed @hsepo 's point. I think they are talking about the ridiculous overly dramatized way of speaking. They went to the worst drama school ever.
They have no concept that this way of speaking screams inauthenticity. It is like someone reading a story to little children.
The night before Christmas comes to mind.....fantasy.
Housing cost is sky high , so we will increase more taxes 🤡
They need more money to rename streets.
lmao you don't understand how anything works. Amazing. Sounds like someone who just rage votes every election rather than actually be informed. I live in the City that had the lowest tax increase in all of Canada and our roads, transit and housing are literally falling apart and infested with rats. Taxes provide benefits when a government alocates them appropriately, unless you are squirrel brained and have zero understanding of how government works. You the same type of person that doesn't realize beef would be 60$ pound if it the agriculture industry wasn't subsidized by taxes lmao zero economic understanding... it should be illegal for people like you to vote
@@dereksbooks And to build more street cars, because traffic just isn't snarled enough..
@@maximilliancunningham6091 And speed cameras that keep getting cut lol
It's better than what they were doing previously by raising development fees. But what'll help most is focusing on being a more efficient government and getting rid of red tape roles.
This is what you get for electing an NDP, more taxes! Olivia Chow wasted more than $12,000,000.00 on renaming Dundas square to Sankofa Square. How did that help Toronto taxpayers? Now she needs more of your money so she can waste it like she wants. Increasing property tax will only work on increasing rents, this increase will be passed to tenants. Thank you Toronto voters, ENJOY PAYING MORE TAXES!
the cost to rename the Dundas Square was $335,000, not $12,000,000. (i am not sure how you crunched that number)
I am not trying to endorse Olivia's tax plan, I just want to correct your number.
That is call money laundering, does it really costs that much yo rename s street name?
@@daniellai7712 The overall cost will be in the millions, renaming the station alone was going to cost 1.7 million but TMU picked up the cost. You're correct that was the cost of renaming the square, but the entire street will be in the millions.
Bend over Toronto..Chow has no lube and it's going to be over and over. This is what the majority voted for.
Well said
Chow is one of the worst mayors Toronto ever had, and I’m no GTA resident, but the only time I see her on the news is when she’s raising taxes
@Lizzbird_ Not to mention that every time she talks, she sounds like she's talking to children. It's embarrassing
@@Ickle_33 Probably took lessons from Freeland.🤣
Well she has decreased our debt that Tory left significant but yes I’m tired of her pressuring us with taxes instead of pressuring Ford for more money.
Glupia sprzedajna baba.
She did cut the development taxes (though not entirely) a good start. The just need to cut their red tape roles now.
Wasting tax payers money for bicycle lanes we dont want hear bullshit
Actually ford is spending billions removing them. I live Downtown Toronto and bike lanes are sorely needed. Enough of building Downtown Toronto to suit commuters from the suburbs - build it for the residents.
We need even better safer bike lanes. It's an investment, not a waste.
@@preetikapil5141We dont live in Florida I am a cyclist but cyclist dont obey the hwy traffic act thats waste of money for bicycle lanes you may be renting but we as home owners pay the tax
@@ghservices5397i think you had a stroke. You are illegible.
We need more bike lanes if anything. Cars take up and waste so much road space, the most expensive use of road space.
Raising property taxes 6.9% is going to increase rent costs by at least 10%, unless I'm missing something?
Landlords just charge the tenants more to compensate, and more on top of that because they can.
Genuinely baffled by this decision
There is nothing baffling about this. Socialists don't know how to manage finances. They believe that money is in itself valuable, not merely a unit of exchange for things that have actual value like property, labour, etc., so their solutions to problems will always be "Give us more money" even if it doesn't solve problems of supply (housing).
You are missing something. There's nothing crazy about this tax increase. As an example, if you own a 500k property, this would cost you only $250 PER YEAR, which is $20 per month. This will not increase rents by 10%.
@@kenmcintosh9480 Do you want 250$ going out of your pocket to the city to spend on Toronto City branded crack pipes to hand out? Or in your pocket to spend on groceries, a new pair of jeans, or seeing the dentist? The math goes for a 500k residential home in Toronto you pay $3331.37 a year in property tax to the city. This increase brings it up to $3561.23. Making the bill $296.77/month. And remember it wasn't even a year ago that it went up 10%.
The average value of a home in Toronto is $1,067,186, not 500k. Making those city taxes $7110.38/year before the 6.9% increase. An increase of $490.62/year bringing the total up to $7601/year equal to $633.42/month. On average.
Everything is a joke for her.
Same in Vancouver. Our property taxes went up a lot more than 6.9% than this year, and that's after nearly 20% hike in the past two years. They do this by revaluing your home to estimations that no one in the market would actually pay. They claim that our taxes went up "only 3.9%" this year, but the actual dollar amount is well over 10%. Clown world. Home ownership will be only for the upper class in Vancouver and Toronto. Those of us who are legacy homeowners because we bought three decades ago will be priced out of own homes because we don't be able to pay the taxes and upkeep anymore. Can't wait to get out of this town when I retire.
Shameless.
City.distroyers.city.commity
why would you keep increasing taxes? why not cut non essential services? why cant this government manage money property? we already pay too much taxes. should be fired.
The 50 different DEI committees will stay no matter what.
Plus the illegals have a right to accommodation, 3 square meals, Medicare, free language classes, transit passes and all of that. My city in the prairies has seen a large influx of folks from Toronto. And it's likely you are bleeding tax payers. Only problem for us is they will vote the same way as they did in Toronto .
Goverment don't know how to make money , all they know it ,how to spend more and more
Thats not the plan… people are in for a big surprise over the next 10 years. Its going to get worse as the criminals are running the governments around the world
elect a clown, enjoy a circus
Seniors will be out on the street and those with rental property will pass the bill to renters making housing less affordable. Find another strategy Olivia!
Pools and libraries are not a priority. No property tax hike !
Who the hell still goes to the library?
@@dereksbookshomeless
15% tax increases in less than 2 years. What about the seniors that are on fixed income. They cant afford tax increase?????? Money to the Arts?!?!?! Mindful of our tax dollars? So what do you think the tax increase will do to renters affordability? If you really wanted to help on affordability of homes why don't you take away the municipal Land Transfer Tax for starters. The TTC more efficient, so does that mean the Eglinton and Finch LRT going to be up and running this year? Such shortsightedness.
Move over they need to empty out TO for laundered money eh
Doesn’t affect renters, the tax increase for rental buildings is below the threshold that would trigger a rent increase. So most seniors should be protected.
I feel bad for the guy on the left sweating buckets. He’s either sick or he really needs to shit.
One of the Mississauga mayors never raised taxes in 30+ years while in office Chow Chow being in 1.5 years And not only wants a increase But wants to pay for the mistake they make Like the cost of trying to rename Dundas to some former slaved holding tribe ...You voted for her You pay for that
Not remotely true. They were frozen for 1 year and maybe two. Then in 2013 Mississauga had to borrow $700 million because of chronic underfunding. When development charges ran out as open land was all developed, the accounting slight of hand had to stop. All the 905 municipalites benchmark local taxes and other service comparitors against one another and further afield to try to keep things in line. Can't say what Toronto does thought they seem quite a bit more interested in virtue signalling than fiscal probity. Mississauga and Brampton were definitely leaders in keeping tax increases down but there was not a 30 year freeze, (Seriously, htf would that even work with inflation??)
Crombie raised taxes for 4 yrs in a row.
@@Rhotz-ix8lli was a born and raised Malton boy. Taxes went up under Hazel. Just not this hard. She also fought unions on pay increase.
@@augurseerchow is also fighting unions, they want to increase pll wages by 3% and expect them to pay for their own healthcare premiums and cut off sick days. It’s gross.
@@Rhotz-ix8ll McCallion Mississauga ratepayers went a decade without seeing a property tax increase, And when it did it was lower than the surrounding cities The problem lay after she retired..While the new mayor had to deal with 280,000 to 750,000 pop jump..And demand for Go And tranist funding ..expansion etc etc
Worst Mayor Toronto has ever had ?
Still not as bad as Bass?
@@dereksbooks When was Bass mayor of Toronto ?
This woman is CRAZY.
No she's a socialist with far left tendencies. She is what Toronto voters wanted.
This increase is outrageous. Not acceptable!!!
Olivia Chow is out of touch! She has no philsophy at all. Vote her out anymore.
@@DeafWorld Agree 100 percent
She think money trees are grow on our backyard !👎
Please don't tar all Torontonians with the same brush. Many of us did NOT vote for her.
And that is the problem, only 20% of the eligible voters bothered to vote! Guess who that was, mostly her supporters.
Gong signs were removed from Don mills and replaced with hers 3 days before the election
This is insane. I think I'm seriously gonna think leaving this city because of these lunatic socialists. I definitely did not vote for this mayor.
Chau,Choul,doesn't not what socialism is.she just an desper old lady whiteout orgasm.
Its provine wide, Canada wide, and world wide. We are in big trouble
Tax, tax, more tax! Stop that, Olivia Chow! It's a waste of our tax money. There is no need for traffic wardens or extra time for libraries on the weekends. Out of luck, Olivia Chow!
WE CAN'T AFFORD MORE TAXES!!!! STOP SPENDING!!!!
@WhiteRaven-f4j nook, we need to change more Street names lol
She is full of chit
Can't wait for the next election.
Won't be voting for her.
wont make a difference ! Voters need to impose spending limits on these money grabbing councillors and mayor
So you voted for her?
@@danlefe no
Definitely NOT
if you voted for her in 2023, please pay more like she says
Housing cost are sky high. Let’s raise our 6.9 taxes. Take food off my kid plate Thanks. Bye bye middle class This one is making sure we will need that government housing too
Pay more TAX Toronto LOL
There's no way this lady honestly got elected
I think that you overestimate the average Torontonian voter. They did elect this person and will elect her replacement that will be the same circus of clowns.
The rent for "Yousef" are high. But, the taxes on the building where he lives are going to rise about 6.9 per cent, or more, which will be passed on to "Yousef" by his landlord. It should be remembered that the property taxes on these buildings, like the one in the Thorncliffe Park Drive area, where it sounds like "Yousef" lives, amount to about 25 per cent of the gross rent. The City is always increasing taxes, never lowering it.
yup, like said: So I get to pay for a bunch crap I don’t use since the pools and ttc are full off diverse riff raff.
Yousef should be deported. Why are we paying for him. Why was he let into this country. I hate this place.
She clearly doesn't know how business works and just want everyone to leave toronto.
@@Lucas-pe6fg this i totally agree with. Her 6.9% should be charged to those supposed areas that she is assisting cause my area doesn't see any of these things she is claiming
@ and the diverse riff raff takes it over anyway making it unusable for civilized ppl
we need leaders who know how to spend responsibly and not just spend and raise taxes
This NDP legacy lady does not know how to manage money.
She knows how to steal money
These two people are nuts !!!
saying we need affordablty and rasing taxes dam tone death
just give them your pay check, its easier lol
You can't keep raising TAXES and keep SPENDING OLIVIA! Cut backs on unessarry spending is needed. Reduce spending on street festivals and Libraries . Keep the libraries hours back to what it was before.
No, we need more library hours, too many people rely on all the services they provide.
@pspat101 And street festivals bring money to businesses and brings people together. Imagine someone thinking libraries should be closed. Smh
Olivia you need to consider the income of people before raising property tax by over 6%
I know your intention can't be to make current home owners to lose their homes .
But with the cost of utilities and food skyrocketing, that is what this property tax increase will amount to for many Toronto homeowners .
I sincerely hope you will consider their income and increase or not accordingly. That information is readily available thanks to yearly income-tax.
What !? How about we deduct 7% of our taxes .. so Canadians can actually live and breathe 🥲
How is 6.9% affordable? I get a very poor return on my taxes. Roads are not in a state of good repair. I don't use any offered city services as I can do most of it myself. I still have to clear the windrows that city staff see fit to deposit on my driveway. Sanitation services are inconsistent... so I am being forced to pay more for less. How does this save me money?
ETA: City of Toronto should not get back into the housing business. At one point, they were known as Canada's biggest slumlord.
The city also increased water and garbage rates for 2025 by 3.75%. In total taxes are increasing over 10%. Thanks mayor
How about a pay decrease in politicians wages who want to increase taxes all the time. Close safe injection sites down and that'll save millions I mean it's just wasted it does not help anyone just keeps them hooked I'd rather money spent on rehab centers.
It's like she's talking to a kindergarten class.
Even those with a modicum of intelligence will find this insulting.
Unfortunately, the people who voted for her believe everything that she says. She isn't lying for our benefit. She's lying for her flock.
Tax those landlords that have 2 storey home rented out to over 20 international "students" at once.
Those landlords collect at least $50,000 per month from rentals.
Average Canadian people are only lucky enough to have a place to live and daily meals to get by.
Make her resign. Don't let her finish her term.
Well, you vote NDP or Liberal that's what you will get. They don't give a damn about Canadians as they know that immigrants always vote for them. So keep enjoying being enriched.
All property is getting raised. When their property tax is raised, it goes towards the renter, not them.
Torontonian middle-class people are working Uber Eats on weekends and taking second jobs after their full-time jobs every day just to pay mortgages and property taxes....
while Chow thinks they have private jets...
Such a bad actress
You can tell she was rehearsing this in front of a mirror for days
C'mon Toronto... Next year WE have to vote her OUT!!!!
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Seriously, as if ON is not taxed enough?
They need more money to feed the parasites they have flooded Canada with!
these idiots ever think to spend less?.. wtf do they do for the ppl?
Just another politician who thinks problems can be solved by taking hard earned money from hard working residents and throwing their money at the problems. I don't see any cuts in beaurocracy. Nor any cuts in the city budget.
So I guess that guy is struggling he’s gonna struggle more with the taxes increasing maybe you should get your eye checked, I am so proud I didn’t vote for you and I hope you’re out next election
No problem, she will just take the money and run😂
I say raise it 10%. They foolishly voted for this clown
No one voted for her the media keeps telling you that
It's no surprise to me. Honestly the city did need to raise taxes but 9.5% last year followed by 6.9% this year is crazy. That is a total of 17.05% from two years ago. You can surely count on another increase next year as well.
@@Michael-pg7rv taxes did need to increase but the amount and how quickly is absurd. I don’t trust this lady or her lackeys to be able to spend this money responsibly especially since they’re spending almost $1 million to rename a damn street that 95% of Torontonians didn’t know the history of the first place
@@timothey94 Don't even get me started on Dundas Square. $1M for something that no one asked for that only erases history.
This how you increase property tax and make life more affordable?
Why is she increasing property tax 2 years in a row by an absurd amount?!?!?!??!?!
we pay a double municipal and federal on purchase already. Complete scam.
She knows more than half the city are renters and not owners, so she can get away with doing this.
Just keep in mind, the rents may go up for this
We are working to make life more affordable= more taxes!!! You get what you voted for Torontonians, accept it!
Tax to the max then spend like a drunken sailor . What a poor business plan . Doug please help us now !!!
😂😂now no revenue for ttc where is the money going to come from
All she cares is homeless people or people who rents. Where is the money coming from ? Property taxes. How nice. We wre just cash cows. She is publishing homeowners who pay her salary.
She is Nuts
If the property tax is increased, it's going to show up as a notice to increase rent for that exact amount.
Absolutely
Nope, she said for rental buildings the increase will be around 2% so it can not legally trigger a rent increase.
Maybe have someone else read the message next time. Sounds like Kamala telling stories to kids.
At the beginning of the video, Mayor Olivia Chow attempts to justify property tax increases with a statement that "..housing costs are sky high" in a city where "..everyone belongs". Mayor Chow should ask herself WHY Toronto is in such bad shape- compared with its municipal neighbour to the north - the City of Vaughan, whose municipal budget focuses on the fundamentals, such as: maintaining physical transportation, water, wastewater, and public transit infrastructure, public health, education, parks, libraries and recreational facilities, snow and waste removal, police and fire services.
The City of Vaughan balances its budgets every year. There are no billion dollar cost overruns, social assistance and social housing are NOT significant expenditures. Streets are in good condition. Crime, poverty and homeless encampments remain low or non-existent. There is no garbage in the streets, no gambling joints or marijuana dispensaries. And its annual property tax increases are modest by comparison with Toronto's.
Well all the homeless from Vaughan end up in Toronto so while they and Brampton and Mississauga undercut services their people come to toronto and overburden the systems here from hospitals to shelters……
A 10% increase to every household in Toronto should've been more than enough to cover whatever deficits/shortfalls the city had. Instead it barely had any noticeable effect and now she's asking for more because there was hardly any pushback last year.
Seeing that the vast majority of comments share the same sober perspective as mine still gives me hope for this country. God bless Canada. Vote her out please, WE NEED OUR COUNTRY BACK!!!!!
Olivia Chow is reckless. Reverse city hall into accommodations for Canadian citizens homelessness only. The city hall is out of picture!
good lord! why home owners are subsidizing all the problems of toronto!
Literally how a city is funded? Where else do you think it should get money to fund everything?
@@pspat101 you dont get what i mean? or you are simply an idi**? Why not increase TTC fare? Why we have to spend a lot of money to asylum seekers?
LOL high taxation is why the city is so safe now.
your elected that ndp and she put your taxes through the roof and a few months later again wants to raise it
Is she increasing our pay too?
I surely hope they are not raising the wages of government staff. They are overpaid and far too many of them. Too many overpaid cooks in the kitchen.
No, but increasing their pay…
It's like listening to a child who believes we should all just go to our little happy place and forget it ever happened. I wonder where her happy place is?
Because communism has worked wonders everywhere that has been implemented... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Happy days are here again. (Huh?)"
"Our city politicians and bureaucrats, not to mention the mass of consultants, and their friends and hangers-on deserve our support ... Young couples already living in small one-bedroom apartments will soon be living in even smaller one-bedroom apartments, as our increased property tax on wealthy landlords are always passed on to these renters."
"For drivers locked in gridlock, we are expanding our bike lanes on busy streets, complete with flower plots at the side of the road. This will make city driving even more intolerable."
See Caribana costume pictures this last August. Yes, Olivia's raiment of intellectual honesty and common sense all comes from Bikini Village.
Olivia is full of it,How is 6.9% affordable? what a joke
all the staff standing behind Chow could have done some actual work instead of a photo opt
@@Cutlerypotato And probably got a bonus on the cheques for the effort
I hate when people keeps saying let’s raise taxes. Property tax and gas already went up significantly last week and I’m ready to axe the tax. Let’s go Pierre
50% of Canadians have only 200.00 in their accounts!
What is she doing???
this is absolute madness, Chow needs to manage better
Smh people got spoiled by do nothing Tory and think the city can function without revenue. Now we’re seeing the cost of those years of no increases finally by a mayor who has the balls to fix it.
Yet they’re saying 3% increase for the same workers who are paying these increased taxes. This is disgusting
They think everyone is highly paid like them. Perhaps Toronto citizens should be the ones to say the percentage they should get when it comes to their salaries. After all, we are the ones that employ them. I remember when I worked for the provincial government and Bob Rae said public servants had to have a decrease in their salaries. They should decrease their high salaries. As a senior on a fixed income, if this happens, I may end up losing my home. It’s always the little guy that suffers.
My sisters in the back aint buying it😂😂
9.5 + 6.9 =16.4% in two years… this is her idea of making Toronto more affordable?
She mentions nothing about improving our economy or helping small businesses. And let’s not forget gun crime is up 33%.
So I get to pay for a bunch crap I don’t use since the pools and ttc are full off diverse riff raff.
that Chinese guy behind sweeting a lot to listen all this crap
I was waiting for him to faint
She is so faked.
10% increase on citizens last year, is there anything left? You didn't do anything different in that whole year! Everything is worse!
I think shes really talented. She spoke for 10mins and I could not find one thing that the tax increase would benefit my life in any shape or form. NDP you are something else. Just a waste of time and money.
To all of you City of Toronto hand puppets, cheap dollar store acting school trainees, shameless pretense of a human being, we hope that you sleep well at night knowing that you are so good at your job and never fail to deliver the highly crafted lies worth of an Oscar for the best comedy script. You may destroy lives in the process, but you wake up more people to the truth. Keep going on; you're doing a great job at that!
Can't do the job just rsise taxes.
Why do they make those people stand behind politicians when they make these speeches. It's beyond ridiculous. Like, what is the message here? Those people are employees and they look incredibly uncomfortable having to stand there while these politicians babble on.
Olivia is full of it, the city wants high prices to get higher kickbacks. Rent control is still needed, but with prices already sky high it won't have much of an effect. Rent will never go down, homes will never be under the million mark again. There is too much growth. The city should push for massive rentals, but they won't, the land is too valuable. Toronto is screwed.
It’s really sad that Toronto voted this woman in
I am so angry at the people who voted for this woman! How can I send you my bill?
Here we go again on the taxpayer having to pay more for bad management and costly decisions. Blah blah blah all mouth and no action
It's all an ALIBI, The NDP way of solving everything. Raise the TAXES and SPEND like no tomorrow
Yes, Mrs Jagmeet Chow, This is how you make Toronto more affordable. I vote for the mayor to take a 50% pay cut
I hope this is a joke...
Looks like she is reading a teleprompter, and acting the script out to make it look genuine. More words upon words that sound wonderful! Drain the bloated city council and government instead of raising taxes. @05:33 "While the number of people killed & injured is the lowest in 5 years..." - not according to police data; homicides are up over 2022 and 2023 (71, 73 & 85 respectively). She conflated - killed & injured.
Leave it to the NDP to raise taxes when they don’t have any other solution while a carbon tax hike of 61% is around the corner from the federal NDP-Liberal government
We have a bunch of losers running Toronto and our country
This mayor just keeps passing on the cost to homeowners. How about finding efficiencies? Those who want more services should pay for it - e.g. who needs libraries to stay open 7 days a week the current operating hours have worked for generations. Every new service should have to meet a cost-benefit criteria. Full cost of TTC should be reflected in fares not passed on to hapless homeowners. They should make more services pay as you go.