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RSS FeedsCity´s legal team presents secret report to councillors on options for challenging province in court
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

17 august 2018 06:11:59

 
City´s legal team presents secret report to councillors on options for challenging province in court
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


The city’s legal team says there is no “obvious path” to successfully challenge the province’s move to cut the size of Toronto council, according to a new, secret report going to council next week. The city solicitor also presented a possible complication by saying that while it’s now believed that a 25-ward election can be held in the time allotted, with the election day still set for Oct. 22, it would be “very challenging” to go back to holding a 47-ward election if the city is successful in court. “Bill 5 raises difficult issues, both legal and practical,” says the report, viewed in full by the Star, referring to the provincial legislation. “While there are grounds that could be argued to challenge the legality of the province’s actions, arguments would be made in the face of an ongoing election process and involve novel arguments that primarily focus on the manner in which the province has acted rather than the substance of the legislation. “That being said, there are legitimate concerns about the way in which significant changes to council have been imposed upon the city of Toronto.”What the city should do next will be up for debate at a special meeting called for Monday, when council will decide whether to instruct the city’s legal team to fight the province and Premier Doug Ford in court. The city solicitor, Wendy Walberg, is not recommending any specific course of action, saying if they are instructed to mount a legal challenge, her office “will represent the city’s interests with vigour and tenacity presenting reasoned, persuasive arguments.”On Thursday, the city clerk outlined a new election that she is now obligated to administer after Bill 5, known as the Better Local Government Act, was passed in the legislature this week by the Progressive Conservative government. It means there will be only 25 council wards based on federal and provincial ridings, ...


 
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