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stouffvillesutttribunesm thursday mayjih2066 19 campaign pushes to maintain 3year municipal council terms byjoefantauzzi staff writer peter chrisostomoy has mixed feelings about a plan to extend municipal terms by a year on monday the provincial government ordered its budget legislation to its third reading and with it a provision that would make local elections four years apart instead of three as a regular voter who rou tinely pushes family and friends to cast a ballot mr chrisosto moy said he wonders about the effectiveness of keeping council lors around a little longer i dont know how much an extra year would do he said tuesday in markham josh matlows answer is three years is enough time to accom plish what a politician is elected to do mr matlow is onethird of a new coalition dedicated to stop ping the extension of council terms with a website at three- yearsxa mr matlow a toronto school trustee for st pauls and former liberal candidate is working with conservative guy giorno mike harris former chief of staff and new democrat dave meslin to raise awareness of the looming legislation our concern is what does this have to do with the budget mr matlow said im a liberal myself and we used to rail against the tories when they used to pull stunts like this the trio wants the province to either include a plebiscite on the issue with the next municipal ballot or remove the article deal ing with term extension from bill 81 and introduce it separately extending terms creates sev eral potential problems such as having to wait longer to eject bad politicians from office and entrenching incumbents according to mr matlow the longer it goes the more power and coverage the incum bent gets mr matlow said we dont want the incumbent to believe they own the office during debate on the pro posed legislation monday at queens park municipal affairs and housing minister john ger- retsen defended the govern ments plan after erielincoln tory mpp tim hudak accused the liberals of campaigning on a policy of letting the public decide how elections work and then breaking the promise once in office til tell you what were not going to do were not going to pass a fewer municipal politi cians act said mr gerretsen adding later what we are going to do subject to the will of the legislature is give municipal councils a fouryear term in exactly the same way that people at the federal and provincial levels usually have a fouryear term except in the case of minority government we are going to show the same kind of respect to our local politicians as people generally across this province give to provincial and federal politi cians mr matlow has also taken issue with the announcement of term extensions at a meeting of the association of municipalities of ontario a municipal lobby group there should have been more public discussion he said if they think this is such a great idea why dont they hold a big press conference and boast about it mr matlow said meanwhile in a grocery 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