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Originally Posted by Slava
Just out of curiosity, how would eliminating the ward system be beneficial?
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It would help reduce the chances of completely clueless people like Barry Erskine, Linda Fox-Melway, Patti Grier and Craig Burrows getting elected. I see a lot more merit for Aldermen elected and evaluated (i.e. re-elected) based on the value of their work for the entire city benefit rather than protecting their ward interests that are often quite petty. They need to do this in the present system to get re-elected, because only the ward is electing them. I realize this is a big issue and, if applied to the provincial or federal levels, it would supposedly fail the fair representation test due to the disproportional population concentration around the provinces/country. However; at the municipal level it should work, since the density distribution throughout the city is reasonably manageable for representation purposes.