Premier Ford tells mayors to ‘get on board’

Mississauga’s mayor and other municipal leaders who have opposed a new provincial housing law need to “get on board” and “stop whining,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday. Ford took issue with mayors who’ve raised concerns with the law that will reduce or eliminate some municipal revenues from developers, but singled out Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie after he made an unrelated announcement in neighbouring Brampton. “We have a few mayors that, you know, don’t want to play in the sandbox and one being mayor Crombie, and I don’t know what her issue is,” Ford said. The premier said he is asking for a partnership with Crombie and all the other mayors. “If we sit back and think some magical thing is going to happen, or you think when people come here we’re going to start living in mud huts — it’s not going to happen under our government,” he said.