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Originally Posted by Eric

You are dead right, hon. And a "de-politicised" council does work. At least, it works here. Our city council (it's a small city: 117, 000) oversees policing, fire department, ambulance service, sewer, water, natural gas, sports facilities (hockey rinks, football fields etc.), garbage pick up, road maintenance, city transit, and a lot more. And there is no party politics at City Hall. And for the life of me, I can't see why there should be.

The reason it won't work here Eric is the fact that its too far in grained into our way of life. Lets just say that next may HBC were to become totally independent from politics, and elections would be held to select new representatives, you would probably find that those people who served under a political banner would still be elected to the new council and there would still be the divides on both personal and political levels, think its called human nature