The Ontario government’s imposition of a 25-ward Toronto council has convinced Sarah Doucette, a strong progressive voice on council for the past eight years, to leave local politics. I have always been a councillor that prefers to help solve the problems on the street, rather than sit in committee rooms discussing policy,” Doucette wrote. Council agreed to expand to 47 wards to accommodate population growth downtown and in Willowdale, after four years of consultation and study. Ford said cutting the number of wards almost in half in mid-election is necessary to end “dysfunction” at city hall. While soft-spoken and unfailingly polite, Doucette helped lead opposition to the Ford administration’s efforts to cut library hours and TTC routes.

Source: thestar September 13, 2018 00:28 UTC