This is (will be?) #NWP & Daniel Fontaine's m.o. vs #NewWest. #CityHall as enemy (for which current mayor is surrogate); if elected, it predictably devolves: firings, lawsuits, labour disputes. Fomenting "us" (*his* taxpayers) vs "them" (*our* staff), all while earning *our* $. This we must resist.
Nathan LausterThis pattern of politicians running against their own bureaucracies as champions of the people was tagged as "the dysfunctional dance of local governance" by Mariana Valverde when she saw it in Toronto in EVERYDAY LAW ON THE STREETS from 2012. Its biggest beneficiary? Rob Ford.