Edward Keenan: ‘Good luck, Toronto’: Our new minority-rule mayor law leaves global experts baffled
that would allow formal minority rule in Toronto and Ottawa. It was expected to pass by Thursday.
So here we go: city council will now be a minority-rule body in which the mayor is close to an elected dictator. John Tory, and his successors, will be able to pass laws with the support of only one-third of the other councillors. To start, it’s obviously not true Toronto would be the only one: the same provincial law will apply to Ottawa . But how about outside this particular Ontario legislation?
It would make more sense if the council was dissolved entirely and the mayor just ran the city government. I’m not saying it would be better, but at least you could identify a democratic principle guiding the system, and at least voters would know what they were voting for.
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