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A year after Premier Doug Ford moved to shrink Toronto City Council from a proposed 47 councillors down to 25, the response of most Torontonians could be summed up in one word.

Meh.

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People don’t really care all that much.

At least that is the findings of the latest poll from Forum Research, provided exclusively to the Toronto Sun.

“I think Ford had good political instincts sensing that people felt that there were too many politicians,” said Forum CEO Lorne Bozinoff. “In some ways, this is one of those beltway issues, I don’t think were that aware of how many politicians there were then or how many there are now.”

Bozinoff said the call to increase council rubbed people the wrong way. Prior to Ford’s move to slash the size of council and align ward boundaries with federal and provincial ridings, the city had looked to increase from 44 wards to 47 in time for last October’s election.

When Ford announced that he would cut the size of Toronto council, it was denounced as an attack on democracy itself.