福特很接地气。
福特改47为25个席位是非常合理的，目前多伦多的联邦议院和安省议员数目基本也是在25个左右。福特这是减人提高效率，否则这么多议员，一点小事就得耗费几年DEBATE还是决定不了，议员天天上班就是互相拆台提反对意见以显示自己的存在价值。看看今天环球邮报的文章写得很接地气：
“Toronto’s government has no party system. That means that each councillor is effectively a party of one – motivated to speak (at length) on every issue to show that she is serving her constituency, whether or not she has anything to say. “Everyone comes with a different tactical view,” Mr. Thompson says. “Every one of us can come up with a new subway plan and every one of them has to be discussed. We can’t form a collective view.”
“The gridlock over public transit is the biggest victim of council’s inefficiency. But countless lesser matters – the casino debate, the garbage debate, the debate over King Street – get bogged down in endless process. Endless reports are commissioned that are never read. Councillors use their positions to stall and bargain for concessions on other issues. Mr. Thompson is convinced that fewer councillors would improve democracy, not diminish it. Doug Ford’s plan is to reduce them to 25 – close to the number of Toronto MPs in Ottawa and MPPs at Queen’s Park – and to adopt the same geographic boundary lines.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ ... ight-about-toronto/
安省政府正式提出法案 大幅削减多伦多议会规模