Ontario reversed course Wednesday on its plan to dissolve the Region of Peel, citing concerns about tax hikes in an about-face that has come to typify the latter half of the year for Premier Doug Ford’s government, in particular on the housing file.
A transition board that has been working on the dissolution will instead focus on finding efficiencies in the upper-tier government located west of Toronto and improving regional services such as policing, paramedics and public health, the province said.
