A Toronto councillor is seeking leave to appeal an Ontario Municipal Board decision that clears the city to add three wards in time for the 2018 election. Councillor Justin Di Ciano and a private citizen filed the motion Dec. 28 at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, following the OMB ruling Dec. 15 to increase the number of wards to 47 from 44. The 47-ward option would result in worse voter parity in the 2018 election than would 25 wards, Di Ciano’s lawyer argued. Article Continued Below“The OMB got this decision wrong.” Toronto launched a review of its ward boundaries in 2014, after the current 44-seat structure was challenged at the OMB. The populations of Toronto’s current wards are increasingly unbalanced with extraordinary growth seen in some pockets of the city.

Source: thestar January 01, 2018 23:03 UTC