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In 2017, Toronto’s 44 councillors spent on average about $420,000 each to staff their offices, attend conferences, travel on junkets and on other items, including vanity photos and newsletters.

They made $139,000-plus each, including benefits and the kind of salary many of them would never see should they have to seek a job in the private sector.

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It should come as absolutely no surprise that those whining the loudest about council’s downsizing spent the most to prove their importance last year: Joe Cressy Jwith his six staff blew through $474,000 and Kristyn Wong-Tam with her six staff spent $463,131.

Yet these social justice warriors (SJWs) still have their phones on voicemail instructing those who call them to direct their mundane concerns (boring stuff, at least to them, about potholes or litter or parks maintenance, or whatever) to 311.

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So, Premier Doug Ford and others are probably low in their calculations: If councillors keep spending the way they have (with few checks and balances), some 22 fewer of them equates to more like $9.2 million in savings per year or $36 million over four years.