05-28-2023, 09:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-28-2023, 09:30 AM by danbrotherston.)
(05-28-2023, 09:20 AM)tomh009 Wrote: I don't think the amalgamation has really caused either the austerity or the bad governance. The amalgamation was 25 years ago (Mike Harris!) and the new municipal government was arguably working fairly well in recent years, until the provincial government meddled again. And the austerity ... that is again thanks to provincial policies, not the amalgamation 25 years ago.
For at least the past decade Toronto has seen aggressively austere budgets that have harmed the city. And if you look at the electoral maps and voting records, this has been driven by the suburban voters which wouldn't have been part of the city government before amalgamation.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/01...-says.html
I haven't seen any data about the first 15 years of amalgamation, but I think the results in the past 10 years has been pretty clear.