I won’t pretend to be competent to discuss the finer legal points of the Ontario Superior Court’s ruling against Premier Doug Ford’s move to cut Toronto’s city council from 47 seats to 25. Delay is a powerful political tool; courts are an excellent means of bringing about delay. Ford has now been slapped down by judges twice in his short period as premier. In that case, as in Monday’s ruling, the premier was deemed to be acting as much by a sense of personal pique as public necessity. “We have stood up for Toronto and our rights as a city,” Tory crowed in response to the court’s ruling.

Source: National Post September 10, 2018 20:04 UTC