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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
I dislike the current system where the mayor is effectively an at-large supernumerary councillor. Yet, they have no power to implement the agenda they ran on. They are the sole elected official entrusted with the responsibility to care for the city at-large with no power to actually do that.
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I don't know enough to have a strong opinion, but this makes sense to me. The mayor has been voted in by the whole city and has a city-wide mandate, yet he/she is the same as any ward councillor with powers are limited to procedural powers. That doesn't make much sense to me.
Practically, I think that a strong mayor system in Ottawa would favour the suburbs, which isn't great, but that is more an issue of amalgamation than the system.
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