I would describe this broadly as my preferred outcome here.
That said, a ~27% share of the vote resulting in a council seat, where the pooled votes of the candidates finishing 2nd and 3rd, or 3rd, 4th and 5th is larger, and where the votes of 2 through 4 are barely 50% surely makes
a fine case for ranked ballots.
Its not clear to me that this would have changed the outcome here; but regardless I'd prefer an outcome that more evidently reflected a consensus position of the ward.
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While the winner here, Shan, is broadly aligned with Mayor Chow, former Councillor McKelvie, while to her political right was fairly cooperative on key votes, as you might expect. So I don't really expect a material shift at Council.
There is no way a province of the City of Toronto could ever exist, even for just the fact that the airport isn't even in Toronto proper. I think it's a non-starter of an idea.
Agreed. And besides, most of the 6.8 million people who reside in the GTA do not live within Toronto anyway. And even if we looked at a province of the GTA, what about the nearly 2 million additional people who reside in the GTHA? Where do we draw the line?
