{"id":2118,"date":"2007-07-23T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T22:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2007-07-23T21:13:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T01:13:22","slug":"what-to-do-about-ashton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/23\/what-to-do-about-ashton\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do about Ashton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/photos\/bashton.jpg\" \/><em>Cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/daily\/?p=675\">Eye Daily. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>John Lorinc asks an interesting question in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20070721.TAX21\/TPStory\/TPEntertainment\/Ontario\/\">an article he wrote for Saturday&#8217;s Globe and Mail:<\/a> should David Miller kick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/ashton1.htm\">Brian Ashton<\/a> out of the executive committee for failing to vote in line with the mayor&#8217;s cabinet?<\/p>\n<p>Writes Lorinc:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mr. Ashton&#8217;s defection throws into doubt the effectiveness of a key governance reform that came into effect this year. Those changes gave the mayor the right to appoint a cabinet-like executive committee and oversee the budget. The idea was that in order to be more accountable to voters, the mayor should be able to count on a core of loyalists to carry out his or her agenda &#8211; and in this case, Mr. Ashton backed away.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Toronto wants to be seen as a government that can stand on its own and be given the respect and independence that Canada&#8217;s sixth largest government deserves, should it be expected to operate like Canada&#8217;s big-boy governments do?<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mayors like Chicago&#8217;s Richard Daley &#8211; or Mississauga&#8217;s Hazel McCallion &#8211; would be unlikely to tolerate such acts of political disloyalty. But Mr. Miller has never cultivated a tough-guy image,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lorinc writes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some councillors close to Mr. Miller feel the onus is on Mr. Ashton to offer up his resignation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in hearing what readers think. Should Ashton be booted off the executive committee? Should he resign? Should city council even have a cabinet-like committee?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/daily\/?p=675\">Click here to comment. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from Eye Daily. John Lorinc asks an interesting question in an article he wrote for Saturday&#8217;s Globe and Mail: should David Miller kick Brian Ashton out of the executive committee for failing to vote in line with the mayor&#8217;s cabinet? Writes Lorinc: Mr. Ashton&#8217;s defection throws into doubt the effectiveness of a key governance<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/23\/what-to-do-about-ashton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;What to do about Ashton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6295,407,457,431,425,313,717,1030,426,79,5614,19],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-ashton-cross-posted","tag-brian-ashton","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-david-miller","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-hazel-mccallion","tag-john-lorinc","tag-mayor","tag-mississauga","tag-richard-daley","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What to do about Ashton - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/23\/what-to-do-about-ashton\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What to do about Ashton - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cross-posted from Eye Daily. 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