Thank you for letting me…

Thank you for letting me comment.

I would like to raise my concern with this bill. My main issue is this bill impairs municipal governments ability to make good decisions based on the reasonable information they have and properly represent the people who voted for them.

My understanding is that we have a municipal government to deal with smaller scale issues (for instance a bike lane) and a provincial government to deal with items such as healthcare, education and transportation between cities. The advantage of this approach is that people can be represented at a local level for local issues.

This bill removes this, and attempts to centralize what is otherwise a large number of local issues to a large bureaucracy which is not close to the actual problems being solved. In my experience this generally leads to inefficient decisions made by people who don't understand the problem they are trying to solve. This approach also makes municipal elections purposeless.

I would ask that you reconsider, having worked at large organizations, this approach to governance is neither efficient nor leads to optimal results. It costs more, and takes away decision making from smart individuals close to the ground who are more directly accountable to the people they represent.