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Add the Ford era council cuts surely didn't help make things any better.
Not sure where your evidence is. As far as I remember, most of the "new' Councillors were simply the old ones recycled - in fact some, like Frances Nunziata, are still with us. The real problem is the division of power between City Council and the Community Councils.
We need to be a city state. Yes I know it is complicated - complicated like coming up with a DNA genome for an unknown virus and a series of vaccines to deal with said virus? Let's face it we can do incredible things when we want to, it's just that those in power are too busy managing the crap Colonial admin structure to develop any imaginative or creative solutions. In response to the medias most recent obsession with car jacking (remember the leafs losing another play off game? probably not, that was last week) Tory has yet again written a bloody letter to upper government to whine about his own citizen's behaviour. Hey, Mayor how about telling people to raise their children properly, with morals and self-control? *crickets* It's nowt to do with government funding, these clowns are driving around in cars with guns, what do you want the feds to do about it?
It's that we don't want to.
I'm not convinced that no one wants to it is just that it seems so impossible, but consider that 5 years ago the templates for dealing with a global pandemic were very different almost like science fiction. When necessity makes the impossible possible, society has to step up. The colonial admin structures take into account 10000 as an average, Canada has multiple urban areas with millions of people why hasn't our governance structure evolved to? Maybe it is self-interest, Tory et al made a spectacle of a slap fight with the province while the feds stood by. 25 councilors for nearly 3 million people? Housing, transit, infrastructure, etc, etc? Can't be done efficiently. See how they are all moving on to other cushy assignments, it's too much. Clearly the powers that be don't want to address the issue so they create smoke screens (the constitution - which Trudeaus father revived!).
We need to be a City state.... until "the wrong people" are in charge of it. There's a lot of assumptions made by those in favour of this idea that it will always be people who agree with them on everything that will run it. It won't be like that.
As it is now, we are the majority who exist for the minority. Tax money collected in Toronto, and because of Toronto pays dividends for rural areas and small towns, but barely benefits locals to anywhere near the same extent. We built towers so that ½ acre lots in the middle of nowhere can be built. This imbalance must be fixed.
The argument being that every jurisdiction should be a fiefdom that doesn't look out for other areas? Classic Canada.
I'm sure there are some that do want it, but not nearly enough people to make it happen. I certainly don't care about it, and don't see how it would really change things other than having someone new to complain about not being progressive enough, or complain that they are ignoring the suburbs. 25 councillors seems plenty if they stick to policy and leave the busy work to community councils.
I'm not sure I understand your point -- who does the community council work today if not the elected councillors who represent that area of the city? How are they selected/hired? And what constitutes the "busy work" that should be delegated to them instead of to staff in the councillor's office?
