TORONTO — The (PCA) has launched a grassroots campaign aimed at “turning up the pressure on Toronto City Council to spend public tax dollars more responsibly.”
Called , the campaign is urging residents and businesses to call on their councillors to stop overpaying for public construction work by supporting fair and open tendering, states a release from the association.
Open tendering is a procurement process that allows all qualified contractors and their workers to build public projects.
Toronto only considers bids from contractors whose workers belong to a select group of construction unions, states the PCA.
According to the independent Cardus think-tank, Toronto council passes up on savings of roughly annually by sticking with a restrictive tendering process that’s been in effect since the 1970s.
The #FairandOpenTO campaign includes a video that the PCA states helps illustrate council’s decision to “consciously overspend on public construction work.” You can view that video
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