As a citizen of Brampton, this whole episode just furthers my dislike of municipal/regional government. The whole level of government is largely unaccountable, too weak, and always divided. Only about 30% of people vote in municipal elections outside of Toronto and most of them are old people. Most people don;t even know their councilors names. I would much rather have the provincial government fully in charge with some provincial appointed person in charge of municipal affairs for each community. If there is a problem, we still have MPPs to complain to and a government we actually know about and is held accountable to some extent to make changes for us.
It is beyond ridiculous that these unaccountable councillors who want to preserve a rundown downtown that no one visits from a FREE lrt that can revitalize our core. Sigh.