Tell Metrolinx we don't want money for our homes, we want homes. YOU find them, (same size) YOU buy them (same style of neighbourhood), YOU pay to relocate us and our belongings.
@@minus3283 I don't think you really understand how the majority of the world works. Governments everywhere have the ability to expropriate land for "the greater good". Fair market value + costs is the going rate if you're lucky. If you think Canada is insane, check out east Asia. Place is wild.
Whats really criminal is the market has absolutely crashed simce this time last year. They knew this back then, but waited to see if the market would crash, and it has
LOL, no. This is the power of government. This area votes for big government. They got big government. They are being treated far more fairly than most.
If I was in their position I would negotiate to sell only for the price when the market was at its highest in the last 5 years, which would have been Jan/Feb of 2022.
There is probably a developer ,silent partner waiting in the shadows, once the construction on the line is out of the area, suddenly someone will profit greatly from this forced transaction, just not the home owner that was forced out. Corporations are running our country, not politicians.
@johnny9072 they said fair market value. That at most might cover another house if they can find one for the same price or less as what they get. That won't cover moving. Most times in the past I've heard where companies buy out homeowners fair market value is far less than they would get if they chose to sell regularly. What are these homeowners meant to do if they can't find a new place to buy? Rent? The cost to rent has shot through the roof. It'd make more sense to only buyout the homes if they get damaged. If they don't get damaged after construction is the company going to sell them at a profit?
These homeowners need to get together and hire a team of lawyers as a single cohesive group. Individuals are nearly powerless against a mega corporation like metrolynx
@ClarkGreaseball if you were a home owner there would you really care about other taxpayers? I’d want to get a sum well over market value given the late notice of the expropriation.
@@DrakeFromStateFarm over promising and over spending on projects? It’s just like every other bureaucratic government organization. Zero efficiency and regard for tax payers.
When I was in grade school, the city bought my friend's home to build a road. They tore down the house, but the road never got built. Now it's just an empty lot.
They should have sat all 25 home owners down and explain to them that they need to relocate due to construction. They would have to pay for it as well. It is only fair to do this, especially for the elderly. Do they just expect them to up and leave when they are like 65+ years old?
Metrolinx does not want the home owners to think collectively. How these things work is they give a generous offer to the first, and then they offers get cheaper for the houses that follow. Eventually they whittle it down further and further. Its a lot of psyops. You see some neighbour sell, and another sell for a little less and so on. You start worrying about missing the boat. If they gathered everyone on the street for a meeting, the risk is them forming a collective bargain terms. Which Metrolinx does not want.
That happened to my friend for a quarry to be created. They were offered a decent price but it didn’t cover the inconvenience, the uprooting from their community, and the impossibility of finding a replacement for what had been their dream home.
This government must completely compensate all money for home owners, to buy the new house in a same neighbourhood. Arrange movement and help with everything.
This was the biggest insult. If Metrolinx is going to uproot people and force them to move, they should pay fair market for the home, all relocation costs to anywhere between Sault St. Marie to Montreal, and a flat compensation for forcefully removing people form their properties.
You guys had some good points about the tax situation EVERYONE who does anything on the side(even if you don’t) should have a registered business the same way zoe mentioned her grandmother helped her grandfather save on tax your business would do the same(to a certain point) I can’t explain it all here but keeping spitting zo it helps everyone.
I would be hard pressed to allow this to happen to my home. These poor people. They will be looking at very high prices to relocate and who has that right. Crazy world we live in.
Seems a little convenient they decided to wait until "fair market value" dropped by almost half as of last year...kinda fishy if you ask me. The government better step in and make that right
@@jamieshouldbeavailable I do know the market has a bit of a drop and property listings are sitting longer on the market than before but the market is nowhere near a correction level drop yet, let alone an almost 50% drop as you said in your top comment.
@@matthewdo7947 1 example is, my best friends father recently passed away in the bluffers park area. Kingston + midland. 60' x 180'. Just north of kingston road. Appraised a year and a half ago 1.1-1.3 million based on comperables in the area. Sold last month for $745,000. That's ALMOST a 50% drop from just over a year ago. May be a little more. Maybe a little less, but like i said, almost 50% from last year
Figure out a way to make developments without damaging existing homes. This is so sad. Home for 40 years is not just home, its memories of life and your whole life there.
Exactly! I've lived in my home for 8 years and have so many cherished memories of my kids younger years. And that's only 8 years, imagine after 5x more years!
Pretty sure, Metrolinx will buy your properties at undervalued price, you know why ? Cuz you can't refuse as public transportation needs the land for widening .
No one truly owns their Land. Stop pay your property taxes & you will soon know who the true owner is. An Individual merely possesses the 'right' to live in / sell / possess the property NOT own it completely. King of England owns all his land by law. We live under this illusion that we pay off our mortgage, the home is ours. Property/ Land Laws have a complex history. If you die with no heirs & next of kin. Goes directly to the government. If the government deems your house is in the way of a important public works project benefiting the greater public, your cries as a 'homeowner' is the world's smallest violin.
Gather all homeowners and get a lawyer bring a class action lawsuit against them if everyone is on board ! They should have figured all that out before proposing this plan!!
That's so wrong and evil we are taking your home and your business and your community and your memories and your sanity and we offer you market price these messagers are lucky not to get shot at the door
They should always be forced to pay 2x "fair market value" under these circumstances due to the extra costs of emergency accommodations, location value not to mention they waited until the market took a down swing before they even mentioned it to them. Economically speaking everybody there will not be moving horizontally, they are now 10s of thousands of dollars poorer.
@@shauncameron8390Most Canadians cannot afford their homes believing anything else is delusional. Older folks got in and pulled the rope up with them dooming the young generation to poverty. Vast majority of Canadians do not qualify for a mortgage at today's price anywhere there's a semblance of a decent economy
How about twice the fair market value, as compensation for having to give up a part of your life\heart that you put into it. This is bullsh!t at its finest, what a legacy Doug Ford is building for himself.
We got a bright boy chiming in, they've had this on the boards long before Hash MgGee got elected. Bet you're gonna be real fun to be around in Nov when Trump gets re--elected lol.
These corridors need to be declared fifty years ahead of time. That way they cant be sold to any one other than the government. Design a city now. And declare that no development will occur until then.
Home ownership is a big lie. You call yourself an “owner” but in reality until the mortgage is paid off, the bank owns it. Add to that the city, who holds a guillotine over your head that they can drop at any moment. These unfortunate people are having their lives up ended, what a shame!
Easy solution: no cash deal as fair market value is bogus - buy them an equivalent house in the exact same area and pay all their relocation costs. If metrolinx isn't willing to do this, there is something dishonest happening...
Comments open?!😳 Last line of the news story says it all...land grab will likely later sell it back to the city. Prime real estate likely good for smart cages, oops I meant smart apartments.
Ford deserves the blame. Are you sticking up for him or something??? He's the head honcho of the ontario gov't. Metrolinx is an agency of the Ontario Government. City of Toronto officials have nothing to do with this - Ontario bullies itself into our cities and does what it wants.
I guess majority of people never heard of eminent domain. This happens when the city needs the land for public use and it's all legal. They should be fairly compensated but fairly is pretty subjective in people's eyes.
The truth is you don't own your home or property. In Canada you are renting your home or property from the government. If you stop paying rent (property taxes) they will take it. That's not ownership. Furthermore they cannforce you to sell on thier terms not yours. That is not ownership.
What happens if the homeowner flat out refuses to leave or sign any papers? They can't just physically force you out of your mortgaged home, can they? This is absolutely insane
@@JustinJohnson-id1sl I live in Canada, where can they legally do this? Hope that doesn't sound rude, I'm sincerely asking cause that's crazy if they can do that!
Do you want to live in a world-class, transit-oriented city? Then this is the cost. It sucks for the homeowners, but we can't let a small number of homeowners slow down or prevent the growth of the city for existing and future residents.
Having a dying relative make you promise you would stay somewhere just sounds very selfish to be honest and it makes grieving harder. Be free to live your life and start over, auntie.
They should have their houses appraised to figure out what their houses could have sold for if this did not happen. There should also be a condition that those people get first dibs (not a corporation) to return and give the money back.
One of my very good friends houses was expropriated for the 407 on ramps in Clarington and they built the highway plenty far enough away from his property that they wouldn’t of had to take it, but they still took it and now it’s it’s there vacant an empty lot that could still have a house on it with somebody living in it Thanks Ontario government
One one hand the Ontario Line is very much needed. On the other its basically screwing these people out of their homes. I doubt Metrolinx will pay enough to cover everything.
What is fair is that Metrolinx should pay rent for the home owners of the next two years to live somewhere else and fix their home after tunneling is completed
They need to hold out for big cash. I know of someone who did just that on Pape. She was the last holdout and walked away with $6mil, and her place was barely worth $1mil. That's why these budgets balloon beyond the original numbers. Fight the good fight!!
Tell Metrolinx we don't want money for our homes, we want homes. YOU find them, (same size) YOU buy them (same style of neighbourhood), YOU pay to relocate us and our belongings.
Yep, I agree. None of those is a walk in the park and people should not be put through such stresses due to corporate or other interests
Forcing homeowners to sell should be at least twice the market value.
Yeah we wish. This isn't the way the world works though, sadly.
YES!!! There should be a "pain and suffering" premium on top of the market value. This just makes me sick. Feel so bad for these folks.... 😞
Expropriations should be at market value, or we pay more taxes. Simply put.
@@robbieburns3564this only how Canada works. 😂 just like what they did to the aboriginals. The rest of the world do things differently buddy.
@@minus3283 I don't think you really understand how the majority of the world works. Governments everywhere have the ability to expropriate land for "the greater good". Fair market value + costs is the going rate if you're lucky. If you think Canada is insane, check out east Asia. Place is wild.
So basically you don't own your home and the government can take it anytime they want
That's how the current City Hall was built, large part of Chinatown was expropriated.
@@DaisyDay.-pm2cf But we sure pay taxes on the land, as if we DO own it. 😕
that's why they banned guns
@@DaisyDay.-pm2cf
Nor do we own any of the utilities that provide electricity, sewage or heating.
X@@highstreetkillers4377 🎯 they didn't ban quart bottles, gas, waste oil and grease though. 😉
Offering fair market value on homes that are not for sale is criminal
Whats really criminal is the market has absolutely crashed simce this time last year. They knew this back then, but waited to see if the market would crash, and it has
LOL, no. This is the power of government. This area votes for big government. They got big government. They are being treated far more fairly than most.
Should be a 50% premium at minimum.
If I was in their position I would negotiate to sell only for the price when the market was at its highest in the last 5 years, which would have been Jan/Feb of 2022.
Get a lawyer .... don't deal with metrolinx on your own..... if you want the real market value ..
There is probably a developer ,silent partner waiting in the shadows, once the construction on the line is out of the area, suddenly someone will profit greatly from this forced transaction, just not the home owner that was forced out. Corporations are running our country, not politicians.
Metrolinx is government-run.
Condos next to transit is the big thing. Lots of profit for Metrodinks and developers.
I agree.
Friends of Doug!
This shouldn't be allowed. If they force them to move due to their construction then they should pay for any and all costs it takes to do so.
they do lol. they will get market value for the property.
@@lenin2457This isn't the economy you wanna sell in if you don't have to. So technically they are getting screwed
@@lenin2457 That doesn't cover the cost of a new place or the cost of moving.
@@LilAngelPrincess95No numbers have been given, how are you so quick to judge?
@johnny9072 they said fair market value. That at most might cover another house if they can find one for the same price or less as what they get. That won't cover moving.
Most times in the past I've heard where companies buy out homeowners fair market value is far less than they would get if they chose to sell regularly.
What are these homeowners meant to do if they can't find a new place to buy? Rent? The cost to rent has shot through the roof.
It'd make more sense to only buyout the homes if they get damaged. If they don't get damaged after construction is the company going to sell them at a profit?
These homeowners need to get together and hire a team of lawyers as a single cohesive group. Individuals are nearly powerless against a mega corporation like metrolynx
Winning a court case is likely too expensive and lengthy. I’d push for compensation well over market value at least.
@ClarkGreaseball if you were a home owner there would you really care about other taxpayers? I’d want to get a sum well over market value given the late notice of the expropriation.
Metrolinx is a government agency that builds transit so people don't have to drive anywhere, they are doing good things for Ontario.
Metrolinx is not a mega corporation but a provincial government agency.
@@DrakeFromStateFarm over promising and over spending on projects? It’s just like every other bureaucratic government organization. Zero efficiency and regard for tax payers.
They have known for years and wait till the end to tell the homeowners
She has a year
When I was in grade school, the city bought my friend's home to build a road.
They tore down the house, but the road never got built. Now it's just an empty lot.
Watch that the houses don't get damaged and they end up selling the properties for lots of money to someone else
This is 1000% what is about to happen
Property owners should be compensated over market asking price due to the short notice.
With all due respect, having until Nov 2025 is not "Short notice."
They should have sat all 25 home owners down and explain to them that they need to relocate due to construction. They would have to pay for it as well. It is only fair to do this, especially for the elderly. Do they just expect them to up and leave when they are like 65+ years old?
Metrolinx does not want the home owners to think collectively. How these things work is they give a generous offer to the first, and then they offers get cheaper for the houses that follow. Eventually they whittle it down further and further. Its a lot of psyops. You see some neighbour sell, and another sell for a little less and so on. You start worrying about missing the boat. If they gathered everyone on the street for a meeting, the risk is them forming a collective bargain terms. Which Metrolinx does not want.
I can’t believe the horror these people are subjected to.
That happened to my friend for a quarry to be created. They were offered a decent price but it didn’t cover the inconvenience, the uprooting from their community, and the impossibility of finding a replacement for what had been their dream home.
This government must completely compensate all money for home owners, to buy the new house in a same neighbourhood. Arrange movement and help with everything.
They won’t
poor millionaire homeowners
@@titanattackbee1985 Salty.
@@robbieburns3564 I dont feel bad for millionaire homeowners getting market value for their house
Remember that the government would be doing so with tax payer money.
Poor planning. These people should be offered double the fair market value.
House worth $990K? Here's $640K and gfy is their motto.
Yaaaaaaaa, they should take the first offer.
"Fair market value"? Yeah right.
You put a one and two zeros in front of that and you got a deal
- Bender-
If you don't take their "FAIR MARKET PRICE" they just take your home and land.
This was the biggest insult. If Metrolinx is going to uproot people and force them to move, they should pay fair market for the home, all relocation costs to anywhere between Sault St. Marie to Montreal, and a flat compensation for forcefully removing people form their properties.
Of course they do. That's the problem with a corrupt government. Make you pay and pay to own and keep it. And then just take it when they want.
" How much you get us Bender?" " One hundred dollars.";)
You guys had some good points about the tax situation EVERYONE who does anything on the side(even if you don’t) should have a registered business the same way zoe mentioned her grandmother helped her grandfather save on tax your business would do the same(to a certain point) I can’t explain it all here but keeping spitting zo it helps everyone.
When these things happen...people should get more then "market value"
The government should give the people more money as they are taking their homes away from them. Plus causing so much stress.
I would be hard pressed to allow this to happen to my home. These poor people. They will be looking at very high prices to relocate and who has that right. Crazy world we live in.
Yep, metrolinx will expropriate them at dirt cheap pricing(fair market value is a farce) then later when there is no impact sell them at a premium.
Yeah. I can see the snake behavior already
fair market value? they deserve at least 4x the property value.
Seems a little convenient they decided to wait until "fair market value" dropped by almost half as of last year...kinda fishy if you ask me. The government better step in and make that right
Where can I find these landed properties that "dropped by almost half as of last year"!? I want in on the actions, too!
@@matthewdo7947 you couldnt afford it. Obvious by the fact that you dont know the housing market has essentially tanked.
@@jamieshouldbeavailable I do know the market has a bit of a drop and property listings are sitting longer on the market than before but the market is nowhere near a correction level drop yet, let alone an almost 50% drop as you said in your top comment.
You are 100% ❤
@@matthewdo7947 1 example is, my best friends father recently passed away in the bluffers park area. Kingston + midland. 60' x 180'. Just north of kingston road. Appraised a year and a half ago 1.1-1.3 million based on comperables in the area. Sold last month for $745,000. That's ALMOST a 50% drop from just over a year ago. May be a little more. Maybe a little less, but like i said, almost 50% from last year
Figure out a way to make developments without damaging existing homes. This is so sad. Home for 40 years is not just home, its memories of life and your whole life there.
Exactly! I've lived in my home for 8 years and have so many cherished memories of my kids younger years. And that's only 8 years, imagine after 5x more years!
The city should find them new homes and pay them.
The city isn't doing this. It's Metrolinx - which is a government of ontario agency.
If it can happen to someone else it can happen to you! Just matter of time
I, would love to know the amount they receive and anything else offered, temporary stay, movers, etc, paid for - all of them.
My friend's house was EXPROPRIATED (STOLEN OUTRIGHT) 40 YEARS AGO. And NOT for FANTASY SAFETY REASONS! GODDAMN DISGRACE
100$ the same contractor will build brand new condos on the same properties once this is done. Corruption at it's finest.
Pretty sure, Metrolinx will buy your properties at undervalued price, you know why ? Cuz you can't refuse as public transportation needs the land for widening .
Absolutely heartbreaking 💔 that these long-term residents have to leave their neighborhood😢😢😢😢😢
You will own nothing and be happy.
My family fought expropriation three separate times. Lost 3 times. Don't waste your money and energy.
No one truly owns their Land. Stop pay your property taxes & you will soon know who the true owner is. An Individual merely possesses the 'right' to live in / sell / possess the property NOT own it completely. King of England owns all his land by law.
We live under this illusion that we pay off our mortgage, the home is ours. Property/ Land Laws have a complex history.
If you die with no heirs & next of kin. Goes directly to the government.
If the government deems your house is in the way of a important public works project benefiting the greater public, your cries as a 'homeowner' is the world's smallest violin.
yep. The only people that own land are the ones with a military to back up the claim. That's what's so annoying about Natives, they lost
Pretty much. The state is the ultimate land lord.
We as a people are so stupid, so we deserve to be treated as such since we allow a few people to rule us.
No one really own their land stop paying your property TAXES and see who the real owner is
Tell metrolinx big shots to give up their homes to the people they displace. Also compensate for the increase in property taxes.
Gather all homeowners and get a lawyer bring a class action lawsuit against them if everyone is on board ! They should have figured all that out before proposing this plan!!
That's so wrong and evil we are taking your home and your business and your community and your memories and your sanity and we offer you market price these messagers are lucky not to get shot at the door
They should always be forced to pay 2x "fair market value" under these circumstances due to the extra costs of emergency accommodations, location value not to mention they waited until the market took a down swing before they even mentioned it to them. Economically speaking everybody there will not be moving horizontally, they are now 10s of thousands of dollars poorer.
Sadly no one in Canada really owns their land. The Government can basically acquire your land or properties for public projects.
I can't even imagine.
Reminds me of the first chapter of ’The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’
This is criminal. I wonder how many homes are affected.
lmfao most canadians cannot afford a house... and now the people who do have a house gotta move LOL, Canada is totally messed up.
Most Canadians own their homes. The only Canadians who can't afford a house are mostly big-city folks.
@@shauncameron8390 Yah your right , im speaking from Toronto and this area.
@@shauncameron8390Most Canadians cannot afford their homes believing anything else is delusional. Older folks got in and pulled the rope up with them dooming the young generation to poverty. Vast majority of Canadians do not qualify for a mortgage at today's price anywhere there's a semblance of a decent economy
How about twice the fair market value, as compensation for having to give up a part of your life\heart that you put into it. This is bullsh!t at its finest, what a legacy Doug Ford is building for himself.
This is morally wrong. What is happening to this country.
This is the way it always has been. Are you just catching wind of this type of thing now??
hello sirs!
Not forever bud. Not too much longer 😉
No. I’m sorry. This cannot happen. Nobody can lose their homes. This must be stopped at once!
Good work, armchair warrior with a computer. Or maybe you want to do something for these people?
@@robbieburns3564 We can start a petition.
This is why governments get overthrown.
@@DeeSmith001 We must do something before it’s too late.
@@DeeSmith001
And get replaced with even worse.
They should be buying these spaces not forcing people to leave
People usually lose these kind of legal battles
**always lose
@@jamieshouldbeavailable fair enough.
@@SLAYINGVR not that im in support of it. It disgusts me that the government can just force us to sell our properties
@jamieshouldbeavailable youll own nothing and be happy. Isn't that what theyve been telling everyone
@@SLAYINGVR eating all the bugs
Metrolinx is an absolute joke.
Market value is NOT listing price... the market value is about 65% less
They should be offering three times the value of the property
Isn’t it time to vote Homer Ford and his clowns out of office!
Agreed. Ford is a greedy AH & his flying circus of monkeys are also equally corrupt.
We got a bright boy chiming in, they've had this on the boards long before Hash MgGee got elected. Bet you're gonna be real fun to be around in Nov when Trump gets re--elected lol.
It's called expropriation and it's always existed. Doesn't matter who's in power.
@@onceuponatimeintoronto891 Do brainworms tickle or do they hurt?
@@FudgethePudge metrolinx is provincially run….just like the Go Train!
INCOMPETENCE is the worst form of CORRUPTION
Y can't construction move over ? When they dig pour a concrete walls ? Seems to simple? Next thing u know there's a luxury apartment that goes up!
Now you know how the First Nations felt.
They should have to pay you well above fair market tf is wrong with this country
Daily insanity continues
Maybe stop bringing in so many people.
We're full.
Trains. This is to make way for more .. trains. Trains are not people. Say it with me.. Traaaains.
Oh man I was searching for this comment 😂
@@robbieburns3564 👍🏼👍🏼 🤣🤣🤣
These corridors need to be declared fifty years ahead of time. That way they cant be sold to any one other than the government. Design a city now. And declare that no development will occur until then.
It should be double the market value.
Y'all voted for subways, this is how they have to make them
My friends house was taken for the 401 years ago,
this is worse they don't even need the land just concerned the homes might be damaged and will just resell them all after the project is finished
Home ownership is a big lie. You call yourself an “owner” but in reality until the mortgage is paid off, the bank owns it. Add to that the city, who holds a guillotine over your head that they can drop at any moment. These unfortunate people are having their lives up ended, what a shame!
Isn’t there a housing shortage in Toronto?
It'll be shorter now.
fight it i say, thats so wrong if you do it right you will stop this from happening or at least make sure they pay for that they want to do
Good news. Build it finally
What happens if they don't sell?
This is what happens when you don't own the land.
Easy solution: no cash deal as fair market value is bogus - buy them an equivalent house in the exact same area and pay all their relocation costs. If metrolinx isn't willing to do this, there is something dishonest happening...
Comments open?!😳
Last line of the news story says it all...land grab will likely later sell it back to the city. Prime real estate likely good for smart cages, oops I meant smart apartments.
so everyone blames ford what about the politicians in the city wheres there blame
Ford deserves the blame. Are you sticking up for him or something??? He's the head honcho of the ontario gov't. Metrolinx is an agency of the Ontario Government. City of Toronto officials have nothing to do with this - Ontario bullies itself into our cities and does what it wants.
I guess majority of people never heard of eminent domain. This happens when the city needs the land for public use and it's all legal. They should be fairly compensated but fairly is pretty subjective in people's eyes.
We need to get together and demand some serious change in this country
The truth is you don't own your home or property. In Canada you are renting your home or property from the government. If you stop paying rent (property taxes) they will take it. That's not ownership. Furthermore they cannforce you to sell on thier terms not yours. That is not ownership.
If this country is going to get any major infrastructure done in a reasonable time without huge Inflated budgets this is what needs to happen.
The market has dropped 20 percent in the last yr. Great time for the government to offer fair market value
Why is there no referendum on this?
Does an abundance of caution equal an abundance of compensation or just an absence of empathy?
Is Metrolink a privately owned rail? And are the homeowners being paid two times the market rate to find suitable replacement housing?
No. Metrolink is provincially owned.
What happens if the homeowner flat out refuses to leave or sign any papers? They can't just physically force you out of your mortgaged home, can they? This is absolutely insane
In the USA they can’t, but in Canada you don’t own the land so they can.
@@JustinJohnson-id1sl I live in Canada, where can they legally do this? Hope that doesn't sound rude, I'm sincerely asking cause that's crazy if they can do that!
If you refuse they send in armed police to remove you at gunpoint or just unalive you and take the property by force.
@@JackHugeman in Canada? That sounds more like a States thing
I bet the homes go to people named E. Lee Gal brother
Do you want to live in a world-class, transit-oriented city? Then this is the cost. It sucks for the homeowners, but we can't let a small number of homeowners slow down or prevent the growth of the city for existing and future residents.
Ford has done this in st Catharines too, in order to expand the skyway. Expropriation should be illegal!
Having a dying relative make you promise you would stay somewhere just sounds very selfish to be honest and it makes grieving harder. Be free to live your life and start over, auntie.
Not the first time Mel Lastman did this to expand the Shepard line won’t be the last.
I would hire a friendly ghost to help scare away the contractors and retake possession of the home. 👻
They should have their houses appraised to figure out what their houses could have sold for if this did not happen. There should also be a condition that those people get first dibs (not a corporation) to return and give the money back.
Are they being reimbursed for moving costs too? That can be a large expense.
A multiple of fair value AND a right to buy back the house at a discount should be the starting point! Metrolinx knows better and should act better.
One of my very good friends houses was expropriated for the 407 on ramps in Clarington and they built the highway plenty far enough away from his property that they wouldn’t of had to take it, but they still took it and now it’s it’s there vacant an empty lot that could still have a house on it with somebody living in it Thanks Ontario government
if all options are in table, they can move the whole house to another place, maybe its not cheap but everybody can be more happy
I’d hunker down. No way they’d get me out of my home without offering at least double what my home is worth.
Wow this is wild.
Does the word railroaded come into the picture?
How is this legal ?
One one hand the Ontario Line is very much needed. On the other its basically screwing these people out of their homes. I doubt Metrolinx will pay enough to cover everything.
What is fair is that Metrolinx should pay rent for the home owners of the next two years to live somewhere else and fix their home after tunneling is completed
They need to hold out for big cash. I know of someone who did just that on Pape. She was the last holdout and walked away with $6mil, and her place was barely worth $1mil. That's why these budgets balloon beyond the original numbers. Fight the good fight!!
This is messed up. Screw heartless corporations and politicians. Trudeaus Canada is a nightmare now.
Metrolinx is owned by the province.