Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that More than two-thirds of Toronto residents disapprove the renaming of Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square, a new poll suggests.
More than two-thirds of Toronto residents are not on board with the proposed new name for Yonge-Dundas Square, according to a new poll.
A recent survey from Liaison Strategies suggests widespread disapproval from every part of the city towards changing the name to ‘Sankofa Square’, with 71 per cent of total respondents not in favour of the move.
Last month, City Council voted 19-2 in favour of the new name for Yonge-Dundas Square. Council also voted 17-4 in favour of the recommendation to rename Dundas Station and Dundas West Station.
City Council initially voted to rename Dundas Street, the 23-kilometre east-west route, as well as other city-owned assets bearing the Dundas name due to their namesake’s alleged role in delaying the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Likely contributing to the desire for a repeal of Toronto’s LTT is that many who have paid the tax don’t feel that they are getting any `bang for their buck’ from the tax.
Nine in ten (90%, up 14 points) Torontonians who’ve purchased a home in the City within the last three years and paid the full LTT amount say they received little (17%) to no (73%) added value in municipal services for the amount of Land Transfer Tax they paid to the City. Just one in ten (10%) City residents indicate that they received some (3%) or a lot (7%) of added value in these services for the amount of tax they paid.
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