Poke your head into any city hall across the country, and there’s a chance you’ll find a former MP or member of the provincial legislature sitting in the mayor’s chair.
Recent municipal elections in B.C., Ontario and Manitoba saw scores of seasoned politicians making the jump — or the return — to the local level.
Andrea Horwath is among them. The former Ontario NDP leader is the newly elected mayor of Hamilton, Ont.
”Certainly I had accomplishments that really did affect all of Ontario, as an opposition leader,” she told CBC Radio’s The House. ”But the municipal order of government really is the closest to the people.”
What horseshit. They’re Lifestyle Politicians leveraging whatever name recognition they may hold into yet another chance at the Public Tit. Tory was reelected with 29% voter turnout. It doesn’t take much to cross the goal line in municipal politics.
It’s what they do because it’s lucrative and feeds their sense of self-importance and entitlement.
We need term limits and reduced benefits.
