New Ministers and Transit Legislation

AMO Welcomes New Ministers 

Premier Doug Ford shuffled his cabinet on Friday in response to former Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, Monte McNaughton resigning as a MPP. The new Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development is David Piccini. Andrea Khjanjin assumes the role of Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks. Todd McCarthy becomes Minister of Public Business and Service Delivery. Additionally, Vijay Thanigasalam becomes the new Associate Minister of Transportation.  

AMO welcomes the new Ministers and looks forward to working closely with them. 

Legislation Introduced to Help Municipalities Build Transit Stations 

Kinga Surma, Minister of Infrastructure introduced new legislation today that, if enacted, would create a new Station Contribution Fee, which would fund new GO Transit stations in the GTA by allowing municipalities to spread costs to new developments. The Bill, the Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 allows municipalities to build new GO stations and recover the costs from the transit-oriented communities around them. Where market conditions are not conducive to a partnership with a single developer, municipalities would be able to spread costs over multiple developments for a longer time period. The Bill also improves the Toronto Transit Commission’s ability to enter into cross-boundary agreements with neighboring transit agencies.