{"id":13728,"date":"2016-03-23T17:29:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T21:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=13728"},"modified":"2016-03-23T17:29:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T21:29:35","slug":"reader-to-mayor-dawe-because-its-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/reader-to-mayor-dawe-because-its-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader to Mayor Dawe: Because it\u2019s 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor has stated his opposition to having the Regional Chair position elected starting in the next election cycle.<br \/>\nHe says that he has only heard from three people on the matter and that no one is interested.<br \/>\nLet me be the fourth. Well, actually the thirteenth, if the eight people on Town Council count for anything.<br \/>\nHe has offered several reasons in addition to the \u201cnobody cares\u201d argument.<br \/>\nHe says that a complete governance review of the Region is needed, in part because of the Town\u2019s under representation at Regional Council. The approach of not fixing anything, until everything can be fixed is an excuse as old as politics.<br \/>\nMore specifically, the Town has 5 per cent of the seats on Regional council and 5.2 per cent of the Region\u2019s population. Others municipalities in the Region may have more or fewer seats than their share of the population may deem appropriate, but not Aurora.<br \/>\nFrankly, I didn\u2019t vote for him to argue someone else\u2019s case.<br \/>\nThe Mayor further argues he\u2019s against the move to elect the Chair because it targets York Region specifically. Where exactly does he expect it to target? York Region is the third largest municipality in Ontario, the sixth largest in Canada. It has a population greater than five of the 10 provinces. The Region\u2019s 2015 budget was $2.72 Billion.<br \/>\nIn 2014, the then Chair, Bill Fisch, was paid $225,000, one of the highest paid political positions in the country.<br \/>\nIt can reasonably be argued that the Chair of York Region is the most powerful unelected political position in Canada.<br \/>\nWell, here\u2019s one argument for you to think over Mr. Mayor &#8211; it is 2016 not 1816. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Len Bulmer<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F13728&#038;t=Reader%20to%20Mayor%20Dawe%3A%20Because%20it%E2%80%99s%202016&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F13728&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Reader%20to%20Mayor%20Dawe%3A%20Because%20it%E2%80%99s%202016\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F13728&#038;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Reader%20to%20Mayor%20Dawe%3A%20Because%20it%E2%80%99s%202016&#038;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F13728\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor has stated his opposition to having the Regional Chair position elected starting in the next election cycle. He says that he has only heard from three people on the matter and that no one is interested. Let me be the fourth. Well, actually the thirteenth, if the eight people on Town Council count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3zq","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 15:31:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}