The financial bridges to Toronto's City Hall will be dramatically changed if City Council accepts the recommendations handed to them yesterday.
If you read Charlie Smith of the Georgia Straight or SFU Professor Kennedy Stewart with kind of regularity, you would think that the only type of electoral reform to consider for civic politics comes in the form of wards.
But as pointed out in Smith’s above-linked article, Vision is looking at other means of changing the parameters of voting in the City of Vancouver:
“Jang said the Vision caucus’s priority in electoral reform is to come up with a “comprehensive package” that covers issues like campaign finance and disclosure rules.”
If that is the case, Jang et al. should look east to the City of Toronto, where corporate and union donations are on the verge of being banned from civic elections.
