Toronto Council will fight the provincial law that cut its size from 47 to 25 members all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. The City was given an incentive to make the appeal by a surprise split decision on the part of the Ontario Court of Appeal a week ago. Three justices relied on the Constitutional declaration that municipalities are “the creatures” of the provinces. Thus they ruled, Queen’s Park had an absolute right to enact the Better Local Government Act slicing Council essentially in half. But two judges roamed into the land of rights and concluded that the Ford government move, launched in the middle of an election campaign, was unconstitutional because it violated the rights of candidates.
