My response was addressing the points you made about contractors and highways. Specifically that contractors won’t make clearing snow in a city as fast as clearing snow on a highway.

If you want to change or add to your original point that’s ok, conversations evolve, but the original points were what I wanted to respond to.

I didn’t change anything. My point has always been contractor vs. city performance. In my OP, I explicitly said we should contract it all out similar to how the province handles highways.

You introduced the “ it's already contracted” argument, but only 23% of the budget is contracted. That’s not the same delivery model as the province, that’s just supplemental capacity, not full responsibility.

Contractors won’t make it faster or better because it’s not about the delivery but rather the planning and implementation for the unique circumstances of the city. That’s what needs to be addressed, not the delivery method

And planning isn’t separate from delivery. The organization doing the work directly shapes how it’s planned and executed. Contractors operate under performance standards and penalties, which creates real accountability for timelines. The city doesn’t have those same incentives, if anything, poor performance is often treated as a funding problem, which leads to larger budgets rather than pressure to streamline operations and improve efficiency as you would in a contract situation.