Ford’s decision to cut Toronto City Hall down to size has all earmarks of a revenge move

Minimizing political oversight will do nothing to enhance services or reduce expenditures. It will merely concentrate power in fewer hands, eroding democracy in a process the current mayor has described as fundamentally flawed.
Doug Ford, pictured June 10, 2018, two days after winning the Ontario election in Toronto.
OTTAWA—Premier Doug Ford’s decision to cut Toronto City Hall down to size has all the earmarks of a revenge move. And those at city hall piling in behind him have their own grudge matches to settle. Toronto city councillor Jim Karygiannis wants to increase the size of local council seats to mi...

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