Jim Watson's proposal is diametrically opposed to the Supreme Court ruling of EFFECTIVE representation and all the battles fought over ward boundary revisions. This is but one of the continuing reasons the rural wards are dissatisfied with government from Toronto and Watson seems to have brought that mantra with him."
If we are to save money and create efficiencies, without further eroding the democratic representation we lost with amalgamation, then we should, FIRST, be reducing costs within our unweildy, unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy.
As the former President of the Rural Council of Ottawa-Carleton (RCOC), a rural democracy advocacy organization that has defended against many misguided city staff schemes, I would have to agree with the RCOC's current response to Jim Watson's latest potentially damaging idea (click here).
Cost efficiencies will not be found by cutting the number of councillors and reducing representation, but by having a strong, unified Council exert better control over the profligate spending and gross inefficiencies of our administrative bureaucrats in the City Management Department.
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