More Brampton Drama & New Wealth Taxes

🧐 What is the Mayor of Brampton Doing?

Source: Toronto Star & Brampton Guardian 

The 411: Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown quietly bought two downtown buildings in an area set for major city-funded revitalization and a future LRT stop. He won't share integrity commissioner correspondence about the deal, and he's now pushing to kill the city's landlord licence fee permanently.

• A numbered company owned by Mayor Patrick Brown and his wife quietly bought two downtown Brampton buildings for $1.45M.

• The properties sit in the Four Corners area, ground zero for a long-term city-funded revitalization and future LRT stop.

• Tenants say residential renters were paid to move out and commercial tenants were asked to sign NDAs.

• He says he has routinely checked with the integrity commissioner but won’t share any correspondence.

• The commissioner refuses to confirm or deny what guidance she gave him.

• Municipal rules don't require municipal politicians to reveal business and property holdings (unlike provincial/federal politicians)

• At the same time he’s is pushing to permanently kill the city’s $300 landlord licence fee.

• City staff planned to reinstate the fee in 2027 to help pay for the program, but Brown says he won’t allow it in any future budget.