Bill 20 is serious. It is a dismantling of municipal authority. Elections and local democracies are being undermined by the province with zero forethought regarding the dangerous consequences down the road. Or maybe it is, and that is an even more deeply troubling thought.
I don’t know if the public will see how utterly terrible this is, but I hope that in all the chaos this province has doled out, folks take the time to really look at this.
I don’t know if the public will see how utterly terrible this is, but I hope that in all the chaos this province has doled out, folks take the time to really look at this.
You may wish to review this decision from the Supreme Cout of Canada when the City of Toronto made similar arguments about Ontario’s actions. “Neither of these functions support the application of unwritten constitutional principles as an independent basis for invalidating legislation. On the contrary, unwritten constitutional principles, such as democracy, a principle by which the Constitution is to be understood and interpreted, strongly favour upholding the validity of legislation that conforms to the text of the Constitution. Subject to the Charter, a province, under s. 92(8) of the Constitution Act, 1867, has absolute and unfettered legal power to legislate with respect to municipalities. This plenary jurisdiction is unrestricted by any constitutional principle.” canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/…
@AaronWardDene Are you worried? I really like the bill.
@AaronWardDene Withdraw your property tax hike and maybe I'll consider this civic council has any competency to be stewards of our earned income taken via taxes. Until you can prove that, which this council and the one before clearly cannot, I stand with Premier Smith