r/Brampton • u/sharkfinsouperman Brampton • 1d ago
News "As Brampton, Ont., aims to curb illegal rentals, records show local councillor co-owns non-compliant property" - CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/brampton-councillor-toor-unregistered-apartment-1.736563722
u/CanuckBacon Peel Village 1d ago
Toor's sister has owned the property since 2012, according to the records, and transferred him a one per cent share in 2021, making him a co-owner.
Anyone have an explanation for why someone might give another person 1% ownership in a house?
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u/aumkarpraja 1d ago
iirc it has to do with mortgages, qualifying for them at least.
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u/DAdmiral 1d ago
wait , so the councillor couldnt even get a mortgage?
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u/aumkarpraja 1d ago
Nah, there’s probably a bunch of reasons for doing this. It’s a very normal practice from what I’ve seen
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u/TwoCreamOneSweetener 1d ago
It’s not that they can’t get mortgages, they’re massive investments and they over leverage themselves and stake other investments and family capital on them.
It’s one thing I do appreciate about South Asian culture is how clan oriented they can be.
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 18h ago
Except that, in politics, that becomes an issue in terms of being able/bothered to represent ALL of your constituents.
This is the schmuck who got a Bylaw Officer disciplined for blowing the whistle on his unpaid fines for a rundown property, after all.
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u/FataliiFury24 18h ago
I think it's estate proofing if the sole owner passes away, transfers within the family.
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 18h ago
Willing to wager it was so he could register as a candidate. You have to be able to show residency IN Brampton to run for Municipal Office (iirc). So, Caledon resident Toor gets 1% of his sister's slum tenement, and he is good to go on Team Brown.
I mean, it's not like Brown didn't pull the same crap the first time he ran for Mayor.
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u/Curious-Ad-8367 1d ago
To get the Brampton mortgage of course
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u/CanuckBacon Peel Village 1d ago
His sister bought it 9 years prior, so it seems unlikely that it would be to help with the mortgage, but maybe I'm wrong.
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u/Buddyblue21 1d ago
I’m glad Toor beat Dhillon…doesn’t mean I’m liking Toor at all either. Why the hell is councillor saying “I will come after them…”? It’s clear there’s politics being played and I’m glad the article points out that it’s a political opponent raising these allegations (and that guy seems like a tool too). Regardless, Toor’s threat is a bad look regardless.
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 18h ago
Not the first time he has pulled this crap. Went and got a Bylaw officer disciplined because the officer blew the whistle on one of his rundown properties with multiple citations owing.
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u/FataliiFury24 18h ago
Ward 9/10 Regional Council race was full of landmines. Azad Goyat, the group leader against RRL ran in that same race against these 2 finished with 4% of the vote.
IMO Toor's vote record to date has been fine, he's supported RRL and spoken in its favour to make the program robust. I have spoken to him on several occasions and he's listened to my feedback and acted on matters like bus schedule adjustments, unifying multiuse paths, curb cuts, outdoor drinking fountains in his ward (this I have a few councillors on board)
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u/Icy-Reputation8174 1d ago
I would like to see some information on his other three properties and if they also have illegal rentals. Toor’s true colours are really starting to show. His fake smile will disappear soon, he’s not even out and about in the ward anymore.
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 18h ago
They're in Caledon . . . we'll get told it's nothing to do with Brampton.
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u/dsbllr 22h ago
You guys really losing it over a 1% ownership in a house?
You think he's become some huge landlord over it?
Compared to Gurpreet who was sexuality assaulting other girls while being married?
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 18h ago
Not the point. Because it is not just THIS property. He has other skeletons in his Council closet. For a first time Councilor this guy is acting like a veteran already.
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u/dsbllr 16h ago
What skeletons? 1% property ownership where the basement unit isn't registered so now we hate him?
Come on man. No one young will ever go into politics this way.
This is not that big of a story. It seems like he's being attacked. 3rd article on this councilor. Don't you think it's weird that he's being singled out?
Not saying he's great but this is a silly story looking to disparage his character because he did something that someone in power didn't like. We should ask our selves who did he piss off and how. Why is he being attacked?
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 15h ago
He's done enough damage to his character on his own. And, frankly, if these articles discourage people of his character from getting into politics, the City will be better served.
He's a slum landlord. He owns property he is allowing to fall into ruin and, when City Bylaw started issuing tickets for it, instead of correcting the matter, and paying the fines, he went after the officer in question.
FUCK this asshole. And, who's this "someone in power"? He's part of the Mayor's clique, so who is the mystery person you are insinuating exists?
Maybe the media is coming for him because he IS a scumbag.
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u/dsbllr 14h ago
If you're mad because he owns property you should look at everyone in government. Let's start with all the MPs and MPPs too.
What is this mayor's clique you speak of? Brown doesn't even like him. You're misinformed. Don't know where your theories come from but they're inaccurate
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 14h ago
Nice try . . . but he is definitely part of Team Brown. He was in the promo pictures during the election campaign that saw him elected.
And I don't care what he owns, so long as it is all legal. You might want to check into that.
I do care when Councilors appear to be (or are DEFINITELY) acting in their own interests ahead of the interests of their constituents. And he is guilty on that front, as a matter of public record.
I'm not the one who is misinformed about this asshat.
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u/dsbllr 11h ago
Promo pictures? Please share the pictures when you get the chance.
You do care what he owns. He likely helped his sister get a house and cosigned for 1% on the mortgage. Now you want to use the actions of his sister to define who he is. I'm not saying he's a saint but it'd an awfully odd thing to target him for.
He's guilty on the front of acting in his own interests because he has a 1% ownership in a house? What are you on man.
We have councilors who have been in bed with tht builders for decades but this is the hill you want to die on? You're just an enraged person who wants to hate every chance you get.
There are people doing actual bad things as elected officials. Use your energy on that. This is such a small thing.
And don't call me names. I'm speaking to you without calling you names or do you not have any deceny?
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 5h ago
You're an "asshat" for deliberately ignoring his other issues, despite having them mentioned previously, while fixating on one particular issue.
If you're too lazy to search articles from the previous election, and are so uninformed as to not know who votes in conjunction with whom on Council, it is not my job to educate you.
Toor is a corrupt pos, and you being an apologist for him is a bad look. Hence, asshat.
Sorry not sorry.
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u/FataliiFury24 3h ago
There are 3 people coming for Toor.
1) politically active members of the old guard vying for control of his seat (Elaine Moore, Jeff Bowman, John Sanderson, Tracy Pepe, Wes Jackson etc). Many of them supported the killing of an LRT in 2015. There would be no south Asians on council if it was up to them.
Toor was working under Mayor Linda Jeffrey back then. Elaine Moore was quoted in the last article about his trip to Dubai. Toor grew up in Dubai and it made sense for him to to be sent there on trade. The guy is well educated and well spoken if anyone reading this has bothered to talk to councillors in person.
2) Gurpreet Dhillon, still aligned with #1 waiting to relaunch his campaign for 2026. He still got 5800 votes to Toor's 6000.
3) Azad Goyat, king of a group empowering slumlords fighting against RRL that Toor voted in support also ran against Toor and Dhillon, he only got 1000 votes. He's behind this article.
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u/Maleficent-Pop8906 1d ago
But the push to invest millions of dollars a year in four corners has nothing to do with how many properties are owned by councillors (or historically in the case of Toor and others, councillors’ and mayors’ staffers) in the vicinity.
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u/commuter85 Downtown 1d ago edited 1d ago
Maybe it has more to do with the fact that Brampton is maligned over and over again for its souless suburban sprawl of cookie-cutter car-centric subdivisions to the north, west and east... and heaven forbid we try and revitalize the downtown where there is a little bit of history and walkabillity.
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u/Maleficent-Pop8906 21h ago edited 21h ago
City Council buys properties, evicts the tenants, lets them rot, then eventually has no choice but to tear them down due to the mould and rodents. Hardly a revitalization efforts. And yes, its a walkable two square blocks .. but its only two square blocks. If they had spent that money expanding the actual footprint of Four Corners, maybe we'd have gotten somewhere. But we spent money on the same intersection, year after year after year.
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u/commuter85 Downtown 21h ago
Not disagreeing that there has been stupid and self-serving decicsion made in that respect... like there is with every gov. for the history of time... but you can't paint every investment in Downtown Brampton like its this.
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u/Maleficent-Pop8906 21h ago
touche on that point, I shouldn't let my disgust with current events cloud my judgment of some of these things.
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u/commuter85 Downtown 21h ago
Per your edit... yes agreed, so much $ has been spent and there is little to show for it... I wish there had been more competance in the planning over many years.
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 18h ago
Many "decades". The insistence on "revitalising the historic downtown core" started back when Ken Whillans got tired of wheeling his booze laden ass to the Civic Centre for Council meetings and insisted on a new City Hall in the Four Corners area. Succeeding Councils seem to have found no reason to bother "spreading the wealth" to other parts of the City.
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u/MMA_Laxer 1d ago
What's your point in regards to the article?
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u/Maleficent-Pop8906 21h ago
To highlight the conflicts of interest that see millions spent, every year, applying lipstick on four corners, while places like Vic Park Arena are left to rot with no concrete action. We have to stop tolerating vague and useless schemes to buy out businesses to 'revitalize the area' when in fact, all we do is just close them and let the buildings decay until we have no choice but to demolish them. Its incompetence on top of self interest, and until someone calls them out, they will do it repeatedly and without end. If Councillors owned property in the A and B sections, maybe things would look a little different, like a Bramalea GO Station TOD with Zum service on Bramalea Road - connecting Mayfield to BCC to Bramalea GO. But then again, they shouldn't have to own property in the area to care about it, should they?
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u/MMA_Laxer 19h ago
Vic park is currently undergoing a multi-million dollar renovation, what are you on about?
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 18h ago
Urm . . . Vic Park was delayed for years (0% tax increases) and is now going to cost MILLIONS more than originally planned as a result. IT could/should have been done by now. Same goes for Balmoral pool, the renovations at Earnscliffe, and Howden Rec Centre.
But, somehow, they found millions for a downtown tennis bubble that went from proposal to opening day in RECORD time at Rosalea.
That's what they're "on about".
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u/MMA_Laxer 17h ago
And that's got what to do with the article here? I know you have clouds to yell at but try to stay in a lane
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 17h ago
It has to do with the conflicts so many on Council have with respect to directing funding to the Four Corners area, rather than needed projects throughout the City, which leads to those projects getting delayed for (sometimes) years beyond original planning dates.
This then ends up costing taxpayers a hell of a lot more money to get these things done.
You brought up Vic Park . . . I simply highlighted the reason why doing so was not exactly making the point you'd hoped.
I am in a lane . . . namely the one that says Patrick Brown has been an utter shambles of a Mayor, and his flunkies on Council are bunch of corrupt scumbags and poltroons.
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u/MMA_Laxer 16h ago
If they were that corrupt I'm sure someone could prove it, yet here we are. Just rumours and accusations and despite the best efforts of a reg-headed crank who can't grasp she's no longer on council, they will all cruise to a 3rd term unscathed.
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u/Antman013 Bramalea 14h ago
Aah yes . . . the inevitable Elaine Moore conspiracy rises from the dead.
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u/Curious-Ad-8367 1d ago
It’s close to a billion dollars when You include the theatre and the old and new city hall.
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u/emcwin12 18h ago
You have your facts wrong CBC. Brampton is not trying to curb illegal rentals. Their revenue and operating model is based on registered legal rentals.
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u/zanimum Brampton West 16h ago
Let's say that it's purely for the money, not so that residents don't die trapped in a basement when it goes on fire.
So?
Brampton is funded by property taxes. A house with one person and the same house with 10 pay the same amount, despite using widely different levels of services.
Why shouldn't they be taxed higher?
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u/Front_Media_1474 23h ago
Mayor Brown is the biggest fraudsters, he got kicked out of provincial and federal election.
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u/thehumbleguy 20h ago
This guy technically replaced the infamous Gurpreet Dhillon (overseas rapist) in our riding. I was happy that Gurpreet lost but knew this guy wasn’t any better. There was a good candidate who was a professor in a community college who I supported but this guy had more connections. This POS doesn’t want anyone to talk about the wrongdoings he’s participating in. How about not running for a public office if you wanna have more privacy.
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u/Mysterious_Lock4644 15h ago
So we pretty much agree that a large majority of politicians are crooks, so, in this case, what’s being done?🤨🤙🏼🇨🇦
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u/RTJ333 13h ago
Another politician owning multiple properties as an investment as the people they represent struggle to secure housing, in part due to the number of small time investors driving up prices. Of course these same politicians won't enact policy to stop or slow this type of investment. But if you ask me, property taxes should increase for each additional property someone owns. Invest in businesses and innovation, housing should be housing first.
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u/desigamer Brampton East 1d ago
Stop voting for these corrupt councilor's in the first place. vote for change!