In fairness to Toronto, it has a population of 2,731,571 while Vancouver is 631,486 or 4.3 times the size. With 11 counsellors, Vancouver has roughly 60,000 people per councillor which is roughly what ratio Toronto has now at 47.
Whatever the math, Toronto is the fourth most populous city in North America, behind Mexico City, New York City and Los Angeles.
That does not include the GTA ( Durham, Halton, Peel and York ).
Prior to amalgamation, our political structure was one Chairman, six mayors, and 28 wards.
( East York had 1 ward, Etobicoke 4, North York 7, Scarborough 6, Toronto 8, York 2. )
Each of those 28 wards had two councillors, for a total of 56 councillors, six mayors and one chairperson.
It seems as our population increases, our political representation decreases.
For example, our councillor in Swansea announced yesterday she will not be seeking re-election. That's unfortunate. She and her family lived in our neighbourhood for many years and we knew them. She worked at the Swansea Town Hall since 2004. She became our councillor in 2010, and was re-elected in 2014.
She is a part of our community.
She also knows Doug from his one term at City Hall, and failed mayoral campaign,
"We know what he wants to do. Now, unfortunately, he's capable of doing these vindictive things he threatened to do when he was a councillor," she said.
My uneducated
guess is that much needed transit projects could be on the chopping block next.
The King Street pilot project will likely be the first to go.