How Michael Thompson voted at council

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1. 2025.MM29.11ADOPTED

   Taking a Stand to Protect Ontario Place and Our City's Public Waterfront

   The actions by the provincial government to build a private spa by Therme at Ontario Place have already exacted a severe toll. The province has razed mature trees, destroying a waterfront recreation space beloved by Torontonians and the habitat of many animals including beavers, minks, foxes, coyotes and over 170 species of birds. However, another potential disaster raised in an April 16th New York Times article, can still be averted. The Province has advanced its project through extraordinary legislative powers, including the Rebuilding Ontario Place Act. It exempted the Therme site from an Environmental Assessment, imposed an enhanced Ministerial Zoning Order that removed the City’s Planning review authority, and expropriated City owned land within the Ontario Place site. The Ontario Place redevelopment was the subject of an Auditor-General of Ontario report released December 3, 2024. The Auditor-General found that Infrastructure Ontario (IO) did not conduct due diligence to ensure that spas cited by Therme in its submissions were in fact owned and operated by Therme Group. They reviewed the six spas and found five instances where the spa cited in the submission was not ow…

   City Council · 2025-04-24 14:27 PM

   Adopt Item

   Michael Thompson's vote: Absent

   Majority required - MM29.11 - Adopt the item

   Motion result

   Carried

   Recorded tally

   19-2

   Source outcome