Fri., July 27, 2018 - thestar   
      
   Ford’s move to slash Tronto council without consultation an undemocratic move   
      
   Doug Ford will have his revenge on Toronto. We did not vote for him for mayor,   
   we did not — the majority of us — vote for him for premier, and so now he   
   will mess us up. Because he can, and because many of his loudest supporters in   
   other parts of the    
   province like nothing more than to see us get the high hard one, and many more   
   of his loudest supporters think the entire apparatus of government is useless   
   and should be burned to the ground.   
      
   So he’s throwing a bomb. In a pure display of belligerent power, in the   
   middle of an election campaign, just as nominations close, to throw the city   
   government into chaos.   
      
   It’s a rash, autocratic gesture that shows contempt for local democracy,   
   contempt for the local democratic process, contempt for us.   
      
   By design.   
      
   And make no mistake about it, that’s what this is.   
      
   His surprise plan, revealed in the dead of night by my colleague Rob Benzie,   
   to slash the number of wards from 47 to 25 instantly, before this fall’s   
   election, isn’t a reasonable move to change the size of Toronto’s   
   government, or the way    
   governance here works.   
      
   If it were, it would not be done in this way, on this timeline.   
      
   This is war.   
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   And you can bet those re-drawn boundaries will ensure his ethnic supporters   
   have representation, but the Canadian Torontonians will have little.   
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   The overhaul of wards will wipe out a 2016 decision by Toronto council to   
   redraw the city’s boundaries, which increased the number of wards to 47 from   
   44 for the 2018 election.  That was the result of a four-year review that   
   determined the increase was    
   essential for effective representation.   
      
   There are no plans, however, to reduce the number of MPPs at the Legislature,   
   which was expanded to 124 members from 107 in the June 7 election.     
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