PDF Copy of petition - Excel Chart stands out

 

The Honourable Justice Lynne C. Leitch (Chair)

 

AND TO:

Paula Puddy

Secretary | Secrétaire

Ontario Commission | Commission pour l'Ontario

1-855-747-7224 | 343-549-8732

paula.puddy@redecoupage-federal-redistribution.ca

www.redistribution2022.ca​ | www.redecoupage2022.ca

If it may please  Your Honour:

RE: Division of Etobicoke Centre and Removal of York South Weston. 

This petition is being prepared by Roman Botiuk, BA LLB, a lawyer living in Etobicoke Centre and practicing in the City of Toronto, and is not endorsed by any politician or candidate from any party. 

It is respectfully submitted that democracy demands that Etobicoke Centre not be divided,  that the communities on each bank of the Humber River, and there are multiple, yet nevertheless very different and disparate, communities, ought not be forced into a shotgun marriage, and finally, that York South Weston ought to continue to exist, and not be subsumed into other ridings or eliminated at all. 

The people of Etobicoke Center and York South Weston deserve to have their voice heard - splitting them up not only dilutes that voice but impacts the very real - and very different- voices of the people on the east and west sides of the Humber. The river is a real barrier and the communities on either side of it are completely different in nearly every way. By pushing them together in some arranged marriage is a path to failure as neither community on the east or west side will get the representation each community deserves.

Further, it is just plain unreasonable for the growing City of Toronto to lose a seat. It just simply does not make sense. 

 

The differences in the demographics on either side of the Humber River could not be more stark or self-explanatory:.

 https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:d1a7379e-9e06-3fa0-9a6d-7053ea310bdf

YORK SOUTH WESTON
Average household income $67,954
Occupied Private Dwellings by Structural Type
YORK SOUTH WESTON
Single-detached house                  13,165   29.3% 
YORK SOUTH WESTON
Population by Immigrant Status and Top Ten Places of Birth
Total Immigrants            60,095     52.2%   
Non-immigrants            52,300     45.4%   
Non-permanent residents       2,735      2.4%   


Age Group YORK SOUTH WESTON
65-69    5,075   4.3%   
70-74    3,765   3.2%  
75-79    3,270   2.8%   
80-84    2,695   2.3%   
85 plus   2,665   2.3%   

Median Age
YORK SOUTH WESTON 39.3
 York South-Weston City of Toronto Ward Profiles2016 Census

ETOBICOKE CENTRE AVE INCOME
$128,448

ETOBICOKE CENTRE SEMI-DETACHED
21,795   48.4 48.40%

Imigrant status Etobicoke Centre
Total Immigrants            48,095     41.4%   
Non-immigrants            66,600     57.4%   
Non-permanent residents       1,360      1.2%   


AGE GROUP ETOBICOKE CENTRE
65-69    6,505   5.5%   
70-74    4,805   4.1%   
75-79    4,385   3.7%   
80-84    4,225   3.6%   
85 plus   5,110   4.3%   

Median Age 
ETOBICOKE CENTRE 45.2
SOURCE Etobicoke Centre City of Toronto Ward Profiles2016 Census

It is therefore respectfully submitted that:

1, the eastern boundary of Etobicoke Centre should continue to be the Humber River;

2, that all of the communities on each bank of the Humber River are entitled to full and meaningful, and not diluted, democratic representation; and

3, York South Weston must continue to exist.