Mayors and city councils have roughly equal democratic legitimacy
— British Columbia and Nova Scotia are also stripping municipalities of their housing responsibilities.Article contentPeople seem to forget that mayors are democratically elected, too. This reform is not about taking powers away from democratic institutions, but rather about transferring some power from one democratic office to another. To empower mayors at the expense of city councils would be anti-democratic only if mayors had inferior claims to the popular will.
Not only are strong mayoralties not anti-democratic, Ford has the mandate to implement them. Voters gave him another commanding majority government just months ago, showing that they don’t mind his habit of unilaterally imposing structural changes onto municipalities . Municipalities are no different. Some have mostly symbolic mayors. Some have mayors with considerable executive powers.
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