Requiring a unanimous vote to fire a misbehaving local politician is too high a threshold.

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The unanimous consent provision in Ontario’s Bill 9, the proposed municipal accountability legislation triggered by allegations of sexual assault against former Ottawa Coun. Rick Chiarelli,  must be removed if the law is going to mean anything.

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The bill, which aims to standardize the municipal code of........

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