Edmonton City Council

That was Sergeant Morgan Wong.

Members of Edmonton City Council attended the service, including Mayor Andrew Knack.

You know, it's so hard to lose somebody who's given so much to so many people.

But I'm glad that community was able to come together to celebrate his life and to remind ourselves of the impact that he's had on so many across the city and across this country.

That also doesn't seem like a very, uh, good engagement strategy.

And then, of course, we get down to, uh, the legal challenge that, um, Edmonton City Council finds itself in because there are kind of two rules with... that they're, that they're dealing with right now.

When a councilor goes into a public hearing, they must approach it with an open mind.

That's why you hear, like, if you ever talk to a councilor before a public hearing, they'll say, "Well, I'm approaching it with an open mind, but this is what I think-"

As evinced by this upcoming week's card.

Again, I bet you the Edmonton City Council or whoever the fuck is in charge of these things paid well over a million dollars for this card.

Almost certainly.

And yeah, it's just the fact that I think it's also a...

From Tyler, who's all fired up right now.

What about this one from Rob, who writes in and says, why even have... municipalities why even have locally elected officials if their positions are meaningless and at the whims of packs of separatists with a second home in texas small government means they want power concentrated in the smallest number of hands possible that destroys accountability expertise and democracy i don't want this victor orban shit in canada that from rob What about this one from David who says, Edmonton City Council does not have a clear mandate to push ridiculous infill onto its residents.

In several wards, multiple right-of-center candidates split the vote, allowing the lone progressive candidate to win without majority support.

That's not a mandate to reshape established communities.

They're always, they're, they cannot be, uh, told h- the, which way to vote.

Kind of seems like Dan Williams has just told Edmonton City Council how to vote on changes to the bylaw.

Indeed.

I asked the mayor, "Do you have any legal recourse here?" Like, I know he's not a lawyer, but I'm sure he's getting advice.

Mm

... already gonna be.

I mean, it almost seems like, like humiliation to throw onto Edmonton City Council to be like, "I know you're supposed to be working hard on your budget for the next four years." Obviously, the province knows that.

"You also have to redo your zoning bylaw."

The issue is that that shows a fundamental lack of respect for the voters in those cities that elected those people.

And like I say, I'm no fan of a great... majority of edmonton city council it's a disaster to me in many you just try and get around downtown edmonton and the people responsible for that are the ones that are still there and it drives me nuts every single day but we had an election and lo and behold they won so what are you gonna do that's it i mean Either you accept the outcome of an election or you don't.

And just remember, let's say 10 years down the road, it's the dreaded Nahed Nenshi who is in charge of the provincial government.

And your elected city council does something that you really, really like, but he doesn't.