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Have We Legalized Corruption? The Impacts Of Expanding Municipal Authority Without Safeguards In Toronto And Ontario, Stanley M. Makuch, Matthew Schuman

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article discusses the importance of rule of law values such as predictability, certainty, equality, and procedural safeguards in controlling corruption at the municipal level of government and how those values are being replaced by political and economic values such as efficiency, discretion, responsiveness, and need. Particular attention is placed on how this change in values may lead to corruption and abuse of power in planning and other decisions made by municipal governments.