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An interesting read from Metroland’s Mississauga operation on Mayor Bonnie Crombie’s reaction to banning corporate and union donations to municipal political candidates.
The short, Crombie want’s the province to provide assistance to municipal candidates to ‘recoup income lost’.

The Municipal Act does not provide for much that a council can do, outside of imposing penalties following an integrity commissioner report, in response to the misbehaviour of a member of council.
The true consequence for both Brown and Cassidy is the lose of respect and standing resulting from this affair, and the very high likelihood they’ll be removed from office for failing to live up to their campaign promise of bringing integrity back to City Hall.

For those of you interested, and I know there are few municipal government enthusiasts who follow this site, the Ontario government posted its proposed Ontario regulations for municipal election ranked ballots. Public comments accepted until July 26.