A Royal Windsor interchange, a Neyagawa 407 station, Glenorchy: Oakville's 37 asks of Queen's Park and Ottawa

What the list is

The Town of Oakville keeps a list of what it wants from the provincial and federal governments. Staff presented the 2026 Priority Intergovernmental Requests report to Council on April 27, 2026, identifying 37 requests. Staff and members of Council use the list and its briefing notes to lobby other governments through the year, including at the annual Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Association of Municipalities of Ontario conferences. An updated list, dated August 5, was circulated to Council as a staff memo on the September 28 Council agenda.

Roads, transit and Midtown

Five of the requests concern Midtown, the provincially designated growth area around Oakville GO. The Town asks the Province to build a full interchange at Royal Windsor Drive, allow the hydro corridor to be used for active transportation and greenspace, reconstruct and expand the Oakville GO Station, approve the Town's Official Plan Amendment 70, and revise the Province's Transit-Oriented Communities proposal to align with it.

• Reinstate construction of the Kerr Street grade separation.
• Reinstate Neyagawa Station as part of the 407 Transitway.
• Fund, with Ottawa, Trafalgar and Dundas bus rapid transit and Regional Express Rail on the Lakeshore West line.
• Fund the widening of Highway 403 from the Ford plant to north of Dundas Street to ease congestion between Oakville and Mississauga.
• Provide long-term capital and operating funding for transit, including on-demand and frequent local service, and continue funding electric buses.
• Regulate e-scooters, limit noise from loud performance and altered exhausts, and regulate towing from private parking lots done without the owner's or driver's consent.

Parks, the waterfront and climate

The memo highlights one request that grew. The Town previously asked the Province to convey the Glenorchy Conservation Area to the local conservation authority. Staff found an opportunity to acquire adjacent provincial Crown lands, so the request now asks the Province to convey both the conservation area and the adjacent Crown lands directly to the Town, and to support the Glenorchy Conservation Area Master Plan. Staff say that would let the Town keep the Glenorchy lands naturalized while using the adjacent land for recreation to support growth in North Oakville.

On the waterfront, Oakville asks Ottawa to transfer the Bronte Harbour lands to the Town at nominal cost, and to replace the box and beacon at Twelve Mile Creek with a lighthouse and beacon like the one on Sixteen Mile Creek, as a tourist feature. It asks the International Joint Commission to finish its review of Plan 2014 and develop strategies on Lake Ontario discharges to limit flooding costs along the shore. Other environmental asks include provincial conveyance of the Parkway and associated Greenbelt lands at nominal cost, a provincial climate strategy with greenhouse gas targets, regulation of emissions from small gas-powered yard equipment, and more flood-mitigation funding. The memo notes that a request for the Building Code to move to net-zero and green building standards was reinstated at Council's direction after being replaced in the April version.

Money and other asks

• Raise the municipal HST rebate from 78% to 100%.
• Keep municipalities whole for growth-related infrastructure costs after legislative changes, and modernize provincial payments in lieu of taxes.
• Direct the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation to reassess property values.
• Adopt Oakville's housing-start tracking method as the standard for measuring municipal housing performance and funding eligibility.
• Ban the sale of fireworks in Ontario, and allow administrative penalties so municipalities can collect fines more efficiently.
• Provide consistent direction, and capacity funding, on the duty to consult Indigenous Nations.