In terms of services, I was referring to the additional bureaucracy that developments within these designated zones must go through, as I believe
@HousingNowTO made some light of the parking lot going through a heritage review further up the thread. I should have clarified, these heritage areas are not getting their bushes pruned by the city per say, but the amount of time city staff spend on appeasing the 'neighbourhoods' and especially those deemed heritage seems to far outstrip the 'apartment' neighbourhoods/sites of the city. I have not culminated any hard statistics on the matter, but I am sure we are familiar with the differing levels of pushback a project close to say Royal York Station would receive compared to the pushback a project at the adjacent Islington Station would experience.
And yes the neighbourhoods, especially in the boroughs are incredibly diverse, as this map displays. However the closer to the core a neighbourhood is, the more expensive and limited the 'neighbourhoods' are. Cabbagetown is infamous for its exclusivity and high level of white residents, a fact which this
map represents very clearly. (Based on 2011 Stats Canada Census).
You've conflated two different issues; neither of which bear on the appropriateness of heritage rules and misrepresented the labour allocation in respect of the latter.
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1) Yes, neighbourhoods are unequal by income, that is not the same as discriminatory by skin colour or ethnicity.
2) Yes, some people of some backgrounds are disproportionately better off. That is generally not a function of racial/ethnic discrimination in the current period, and indeed conflating it as such will likely sustain and increase the disparity.
The discrimination, per se, is against low-income earners of all backgrounds.
The problems are equal access to higher education, equal access to healthcare, equal access to high employment standards and income etc. Heritage laws don't prevent someone from going to medical school or becoming an engineer. Heritage laws
don't provide inadequate social supports to the neediest, nor do they offset the disadvantages for those that lack inherited wealth.
Conflating something better addressed by higher minimum wage, lower university tuition, and pharmacare with heritage laws is peculiar and misguided.
Misspending resources will perpetuate and increase inequity and do nothing to further equal opportunity.
3) Be very careful in demonizing a neighbourhood based on its ethnicity. What can cut one way can cut the other. This has the appearance of being racist.
I don't believe you meant it that way, but I think a majority of people of all backgrounds would be far less forgiving in their interpretation of your views. There are neighbourhoods with above average household income that are disproportionately south or east Asian. Your line of reasoning would lead to accusations of racism by and in favour of said groups.
It's not sound reasoning.
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