Less than a day after Toronto claimed it would be cancelling its 2023 Canada Day celebrations at Nathan Phillips Square due to “resource constraints” during a “fiscally complex year,” the city announced it had reversed its decision.
“The City of Toronto plans to use money in existing approved operating budgets to activate all City-led programming on Canada Day. The City will continue to work with its partners, including other orders of government, to deliver this year’s celebrations across Toronto, including on Nathan Phillips Square,” Jessamine Luck, a spokesperson at the City of Toronto, told The Epoch Times.
While Toronto had not celebrated Canada Day at Nathan Phillips Square since 2017, the city had begun preparations for a possible event this year. But the news broke that the celebration had been cancelled after an email was sent to City of Toronto volunteers on May 23. The email said that while it was “not an easy decision,” the funds secured for the celebration were “not adequate to the standard of program that the event and the participants deserve.”…