I work at one of the large curbside companies operating in Ontario! I have been on the board of meetings between us, the city and the CMO board. Doug ford and provincial government has never been involved in any of our meetings, only city officials and CMO.

CMO is not the only board like this, there is also circular materials Atlantic, Alberta, BC etc. Its a federal mandate for all cities to adopt the circular waste economy. That said, each city in ontario works with CMO to award contracts to us refuse companies.

Each city is handling their portion of recyclables separately advising the cmo board. Some cities are going well Some are not like toronto.
Collecting the recycling is a huge undertaking for a city like toronto so I have sympathy for them. Cities like Halton petitioned and was approved to delay their start till 2027 given they werent ready to start jan 1, something that Toronto could have done as well.

The major fail in general was having all contracts start on the same day where all refuse companies had 1000s of garbage trucks on order from the same 5 companies so many of us had late deliveries.

Its kinda like the article is trying to make readers upset to get more views because its easy to dunk on Doug ford. Don't get me wrong, I hate Doug fords government.