Ford doesn't represent what voters wanted

If applied to Peterborough, Ford’s formula for Toronto City Council would mean changing Peterborough’s one part-time councillor per 7,500 citizens to one part-time councillor for the 75,000 people in Peterborough or one full-time councillor for both city and county.

A single Toronto councillor now represents almost the 75k population of Peterborough (58k) but under the new formula each councillor will represent the equivalent population of both Peterborough City and County. It also means less power in the hands of elected representatives. Some believe that means more power for the bureaucracy but what about the developers?

This is what a vote for the Liberals helped put in place when Leal misled voters about being close to beating Smith in his last mailing.

We now have a vindictive premier running roughshod over democracy without consulting the people but claiming we cannot have a sex-ed curriculum to keep our kids and grandkids safe because the extensive (4,000) people in the Liberal consultation wasn’t large enough.

NONE of the several million people of Toronto were consulted on this undemocratic change.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts democracy. Ford had 40 per cent of the vote and 23 per cent of eligible voters but now has 100 per cent of the power. Will David Smith develop the backbone to stand up to him? From the back benches?

That is why this province and country needs real proportional representation, not the phony version Trudeau and Monsef wanted. But neither will be happening for the next election as was promised by both Monsef and Trudeau.

And low voter turnout will continue. Herb Wiseman, Peterborough