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Originally Posted by highthief
I'm not sure I agree with giving the municipalities more control or dollars. As far as I have seen in Toronto, the municipal government is hopeless - guys like Miller talk and talk and have no clue, IMO, about what to do or how to do it.
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Toronto can't get shit done, regardless of the leadership, because the Province holds all the power and the Feds hold a lot of the money. It isn't politically advantageous for a the Provincial governement to give Toronto what it really needs because of how it reads in the rest of the province.
Looking at cities like Chicago and London, where a lot of the power resides in the city itself they have managed to bring about changes to the positive (I am largely talking about Chicago's ability to turn around its waterfront in a reasonably short time or London to control its tax base to fund various projects).
I would argue that you don't get "the cream of the crop" in the current municiple set up because there is little real power there.