The Trillium Party of Ontario know the mistakes the provincial government has committed with amalgamation and regional governments. We have read the reports on the increased expense and the removal of democratic rights when regional governments and amalgamation takes place.

“The people of Ontario do not want or need more red-tape! They do not want higher taxes due to higher bureaucratic costs and the people are fed up with the loss of their democratic rights caused by regional government and amalgamation! “ says Bob Yaciuk, Trillium Party Leader

Comments/quotes from The Rural Council of Ottawa-Carleton:

“Regional Ottawa's rural townships are worse off now, than before amalgamation with the city.

The bureaucratic “take-over”

Representation of rural constituents has suffered enormously under amalgamation. With that, comes the double curse of reduced political accountability. A single ineffectual representative at the council table is no longer capable of serving us. He/she is simply outnumbered by the urban councilors, who are mere “rubber stamps” for city-focused agendas. Part of the diminished accountability is achieved by councilors deferring matters to unelected bureaucrats (city staff and outside consultants). This gives the unelected bureaucrats untold power over both the Councilors and thus, over the public, as well. Urban Councilors are all too quick to defer to staff because that makes their own high-paying “jobs” relatively worry-free, without the previous levels of stress or responsibility. And since the staff are not accountable to the public, and since the councilors can no longer do anything without them, (since they’re doing their job for them), they’re happy, too. Outside consultants are even happier, since they are being paid five to ten times more per man/hour to do the same work their internal counterparts should be doing it for. However, by hiring outside consultants to do the work, responsibility has now passed onto the “outside experts”…whose level of incompetence can no longer be challenged, because of all the money they’re being paid.”

The Trillium Party of Ontario would move forward with the allowance of de-amalgamation and would remove the bureaucratic level of regional governments.

source: media release, Trillium Party of Ontario