In 2010, then-Mayor Rob Ford convinced Toronto councillors to support a cut to their individual office budgets from $50,445 to $30,000 a year, and created a political climate where councillor spending was top of the agenda , at least for a time.

In 2012, councillors pushed back and approved an annual rate of inflation increase to their office budgets.

This visualization shows how the first cut dramatically reduced spending and how the subsequent increase allowed costs to begin to creep up for some councillors.