Doug Ford pledges to fix 'broken' Toronto City Hall, Rare midnight sitting of Ontario Legislature ends

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Doug Ford decides to fix 'broken' Toronto City Hall, Rare midnight sitting of Ontario Legislature ends

Doug Ford decides to fix 'broken' Toronto City Hall, Rare midnight sitting of Ontario Legislature ends

Premier Doug Ford pledges to "cut through the political games and delay tactics" before the wrap-up this morning of a rare midnight sitting of the Ontario Legislature to speed up the passage of a controversial bill to cut Toronto city council nearly in half.

Ford promised to do "whatever it takes" to address the "crumbling infrastructure right underneath our feet," shortly before the debate of Bill 31 concluded after seven hours.

"Our plan would replace a broken City Hall, one where meetings can last for days and nothing gets done — a system that isn't working," he said during the session.

Bill 31, introduced and passed through first reading with overwhelming support from a Progressive Conservative majority last week, would see the number of councillors in Canada's largest city dramatically slashed to 25 from 47.

It aims to align the city's municipal ward boundaries with provincial and federal electoral districts with a little more than a month to go before Toronto's municipal election.

MPPs will return to Queen's Park for question period at 10:30 a.m. ET Monday.

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