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Toronto could be contracting out all its trash collection if Mayor Rob Ford wins the next election.
Ford vowed Wednesday he will be campaigning next year on contracting out garbage pick-up east of Yonge St. ? the half of the city still collected by unionized city employees.
A report to the public works committee Wednesday found double the average number complaints per week in the first quarter of the year in areas of the city collected by unionized city employees compared to areas where collection has been contracted out.
Ford ? who successfully got council to privatize more of the city?s trash collection ? applauded the numbers.
?I think it?s great. Obviously the number of complaints went down in the private sector,? Ford said. ?No offence to in-house (collection). In-house is improving their service too. It?s a good comparison. But eventually I want to see all the garbage contracted out in the city.?
Although he?s floated the idea before, Ford committed to making the issue part of his 2014 election campaign.
?People want to see that too,? he said.
CUPE Local 416 vice-president Dave Hewitt questioned the complaint numbers in the report.
?I don?t think it?s correct,? Hewitt said, adding the union is studying the data around the complaints.
Jim Harnum, the city?s general manager of solid waste management, said he trusts the numbers.
?Absolutely, the numbers are right out of our 311 database,? Harnum said. ?We don?t have control of those numbers ? it is going directly to those operators (at 311) and they?re compiling those numbers and giving us those numbers.?
Councillor Gord Perks saif if Ford?s campaigning to contract out garbage collection, he?ll be campaigning against him.
?I think all the advice we?ve gotten from city staff is that would be a terrible idea,? Perks said. ?City staff have said that if it all goes into private hands we lose our ability to hold the private contractors to any kind of standard and to keep the price down.?
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