Neville ParkNot entirely unserious speculation: the eventual outcome of Doug Ford's tenure will be essentially scrapping the City of Toronto Act and turning the area into something more like the District of Columbia, administered directly by the Province in all respects. It will have some dreadful name like the Provincial Capital Administrative Region.
It can be rolled up into a new ministry, headed by an appointed Minister for the Provincial Capital Administrative Region and with provincial civil servants largely taking on the functions of local government. There is probably a place for some sort of voting where representatives are elected to serve on committees that have no executive power and instead make non-binding recommendations or requests to the Ministry. They can still handle everyday matters, but the business of actually making new by-laws and policies and allocating the budget can be shuffled away to unelected, faceless, un-contactable and essentially unaccountable civil servants.
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Michael Gemar@nev That’s my fear as well. However, Ford probably doesn’t want the hassle or visibility of making provincial control official (or take over the financial obligations). Right now he does what he wants on the issues he cares about, and leaves the city to do the boring stuff he doesn’t care about. The present situation seems ideal for him.