Chatsworth elect at large with the rest of Ontario

So now Chatsworth joins the rest of Ontario in electing at large, after Mayor Bob Pringle brought council to agree on droping the past ward system for the conventional at large system, being one of the last municipalities left in the province to do so. Since the major amalgamation shift of 2000 here in Ontario, Pringle felt it would be more populist in allowing people more voice on who they were electing, Ward 2 Holland Councillor Cornelius Vlielander being the sole opponent against seeing all five candidates for council being voted for by all constituents at large from within the municipality. The ward system being used right now allows the mayor and deputy mayor and two candidates to be elected at large, with three councillors voted in from their wards, this system changed from the days of amalgamation when there were four wards with only the mayor elected at large.

A municipality like Chatsworth is the kind in which you need to have your ear to the ground on all issues local, having combed the whole map with dad while he was on professional real estate business, mom for property management business or the rest of the family to visit other family and friends, I know from Keady to Williamsford and from Scone to Walters Falls then Chatsworth in between it, the greater community is found in these small towns and villages.

Which is why I agree with Cornelius that wards make for a better idea, they do make you know your people better, quite like the reason why he voted against the motion in the first place, as he represented his constitutents and rightly so. A couple preliminary consulting hearings will continue to back the results of the vote, I am sure, but something is missing each time we change the past and progress into the present. I am sure with the major amalgamation shift of 2000 here in Ontario, we miss a lot of the local community bonding and banding together which seems to be slowly being replaced by a globalized social media and melding of our own minds collectively into one monolithic thought, instead of the pluriformity of difference only community can create.