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Al Rosen and Associates, Litigation and Investigative Accountants, have reviewed the City of Toronto’s cost estimates related to their proposed contracting out of waste collection west of Yonge Street and found them seriously flawed. 

The report, commissioned by the Toronto Civic Employees Union (TCEU), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 416, maintains, “Potential cost savings from contracting out waste collection services are speculative at best.” 

Further, the report says: “Simply stated, the staff’s cost efficiencies of contracting out would have to be labeled as ‘fictional.’ Available facts do not support staff’s claims.” 

We asked Al Rosen and Associates to review all the available information so that city council and the taxpayers of Toronto could be given as much information and analysis as possible before this crucial decision is made,” said Mark Ferguson, president of TCEU/CUPE Local 416. 

All along, we have maintained that the information released by the city was insufficient and inconclusive. That’s why we brought in an independent and highly-respected accounting firm, one that specializes in investigative reviews, to go over the materials and information the city has supplied. 

It is my opinion that city staff’s costing is so fundamentally flawed that city council needs to have an independent assessment of the cost of in-house delivery,” says Rosen. “How can you know whether they are saving money if they don’t know how much it costs to do it themselves?” 

I firmly believe that, if the city solid waste managers sat down with front line workers, we could find efficiencies that would save money for taxpayers. We were able to do that when the decision was made to contract back in the collections in the former City of York, and we can do it again,” Ferguson said. 

Once again, I call on the city to sit down with us and work together to find those efficiencies. That is what is in the best interest of the residents of Toronto,” Ferguson concluded. 


For more information, please contact: 

Mark Ferguson
President, TCEU/CUPE Local 416
 416-602-8561

Wendy Forbes
CUPE Communications
 416-892-8716