Is an organisation that created itself. The Ontario Heritage Trust was created pretty much for the same purpose. Original reason for being was to receive donations of property in return for its appraised value to be paid in tax rebate to the affluent who pay taxes sufficient to the extent money is saved by donating property to the government.
They get to be hailed as benefactors while pocketing the loot and the goody-goody among us, chant the chorus of songs of praise while basking in the reflective warmth of human kindness.
A municipality can't give tax rebates. A town is a tax collector. Not a charitable foundation.
Like most non- government agencies, no sooner is life breathed into them they swell and expand and there's no stopping their growth and imagined importance.
The Oak Ridges Moraine Trust has come to believe they and they alone are responsible for saving the planet.
To that end, they have requested the Province provide them with eleven million dollars over the next few years to realise their "mandate" .
The Town has been asked to endorse the request and send messages of support to our provincial masters.
It seems to have escaped notice, the Province is billions of dollars in debt and desperately seeking an idea to distract voter attention in time to win the next election.
Giving money away is a tried and true political strategy.
It didn't work in Aurora in the last election.
But those who won hardly seem to have noticed.
Evelyn,
ReplyDeleteThis is all so very sad! The sucking sound still
reverberates through our little town. Could these
people not find something to do with their
lives that did not require other people's
money for their own ego trips?
CHECK OUT SNAP AURORA. WE HAVE A NEW
ReplyDeletePHOTO OP FEMALE IN TOWN FALLING OUT OF
HER DRESS !
FAST FOODS TAKE THEIR TOLL !
And the gravy train rolls on and on with
ReplyDeleteinterchangeable conductors, hyphenated or
not,and I hope they are really do their due
diligence on the in and out flow of money
because there is a septic smell to a couple of
these projects.
If you lend your name to a board of
directors, you should be looking at who
put you on board and why.