I don't love his shallow leftist rebellion against developments but Perks is a lock. So that leaves Bailão against Palacio.
Although I saw Perks in the past year or so give one of the best speeches I have ever heard at Community Council. A developer was proposing a new tower in an area designated Apartment Neighbourhoods. The developer worked with Planning, met with residents, and refined its project to a modest dozen or so storeys, and incorporated many other changes that Planning requested, such that the Final Report recommended approval.
It was Matlow's ward, and Matlow was playing to the peanut gallery (the audience was full of his ratepayers who thought the highest and best use in an Apartment Neighbourhood is semi-detached houses). Matlow moved a motion to restrict the height to something like six storeys, notwithstanding the recommendations of the City's own planning department. When questioned, Matlow couldn't really justify the six storey limit, other than to say that the residents felt it to be "fair" and "already too much of a compromise", yet he was defiant in arguing that it was appropriate.
Perks then gave a great speech. Any summary I do won't do it justice. He talked about how we live in a country with private property, and that Council cannot forget that fact when exercising its authority over planning matters. He talked about how this developer had done exactly what Councillors keep asking developers to do - it talked to the Councillor, talked to the residents, talked to the planners, worked with the Planning department, and resubmitted a proposal that the Planning department could support. Yet, in reward for its responsible actions, the developer was faced with a motion to impose an arbitrary six-storey height limit with no planning basis and that was not recommended by Planning staff. Perks said "when we do things like this, it justifies the existence of the OMB". And Council ends up having to waste tax dollars to hire outside planning consultants to defend this arbitrary 6-storey limit at the OMB, with the City fighting the developer and its own Planning staff.
Only one speech, so I shouldn't make too much of it. But it was good. And it has improved my opinion of Perks.