In the age of the Great Resignation and volatile public discourse, is being a city councillor a coveted role anymore?
Councillors say the volume of work after the number of wards was cut from 47 to 25 in 2018 has been overwhelming, and is being done in the context of troubling changes in Canada’s political culture that have resulted in vicious personal and sometimes violent attacks on elected officials.
While public service salaries over $100,000 tend to trigger reflexive outrage, raises for Toronto councillors have long been limited to bumps no greater than the annual increase in Toronto’s Consumer Price Index, despite the dramatic increase in the size of wards in 2018. The base income for an MP in the same wards, with the same borders and number of constituents, is $189,500.
Myer Siemiatycki, professor emeritus of politics at Toronto Metropolitan University, said there’s more at play in the seven departures than idiosyncratic factors. But he doesn’t think the current pay package is discouraging qualified, capable people from running for office
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