With the precipitous decline of democracy in the United States, it is all too easy to ignore that Canada’s democracy is in decline as well. We ignore the signs at our peril.
Riding are too big, imagine if we had riding of 30,000 instead of 100,000. You’d get very local candidates making their way to Parliament, with very local issues to deal with. It would be less polarizing, and help solve local problems.
We went from 47 to 25. Toronto has a population of 3.3 million. That’s 132,000 per councilor, currently. Previously it was 70,000 people per city councilor. Nothing is being done in this city because there are too few councilors! Currently a handful of very rich developers get to decide most things.
Even the few things that this city council managed to decide, those decisions were still overturned by Doug Ford.
Collingwood Ontario has 9 city councilors and has a population of 30,000. That’s like 1 representative for every 3,000 people!!!
Riding are too big, imagine if we had riding of 30,000 instead of 100,000. You’d get very local candidates making their way to Parliament, with very local issues to deal with. It would be less polarizing, and help solve local problems.
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The wages of the extra politicians would be completely insignificant. People can’t really seem to comprehend the money governments spend, and on what.
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We went from 47 to 25. Toronto has a population of 3.3 million. That’s 132,000 per councilor, currently. Previously it was 70,000 people per city councilor. Nothing is being done in this city because there are too few councilors! Currently a handful of very rich developers get to decide most things.
Even the few things that this city council managed to decide, those decisions were still overturned by Doug Ford.
Collingwood Ontario has 9 city councilors and has a population of 30,000. That’s like 1 representative for every 3,000 people!!!
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