For those following the fascinating public/ private culture
clash that is the Blue Box funding arbitration under the Waste Diversion Act, here is the Amended Municipal Claim. You will see that
paragraphs 70 and 71 have been amended, to plead that the Cost
Containment Plan was never a legally enforceable amendment to the
Blue
Box Program Plan. Instead, the municipalities say, it was
merely a policy document, a strategy, with no more legal effect
than the Minister's calls for a particular level of waste
diversion.
Meanwhile, the Blue Box arbitration hearing has begun. Opening
statements have been made on behalf of the Association of
Municipalities of Ontario (by Dianne Saxe) and on behalf of the
City of Toronto (by Glenn Chu). In between bouts of procedural
wrangling, the first witness has testified for the municipalities.
Derek Stephenson was one of the original inventors of the Blue
Box, here in Ontario, and has since helped to develop similar
