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Bold, dramatic, ground breaking and controversial.

But with one stroke of the pen, Premier Doug Ford plans to save taxpayers at least $25-million by cutting Toronto city council almost in half.

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“That should be $25.5-million,” said a government source. “And it’s really 22 council seats being cut because it was going to balloon to 47 seats after the next election.”

Not anymore.

Premier Ford at 9 a.m. Friday will announce the plan to cut the Toronto council down to 25 seats, the source said.

“Premier Ford with this change is focused on Toronto, the GTA and on the Golden Horseshoe,” said the source. “He feels money is being wasted on politicians and not being spent on the needs of the cities and towns. He feels the more politicians there are, the harder it is to get things done and as a result slower growth occurs.”

Ford has told me on numerous occasions that “everywhere I went in the province during the campaign I didn’t hear people demanding that we have more politicians.”