Mega city voting on the Metropolitans (birth of the "greater areas" around them) is what did them in.
They got distracted by "number go up on your house". But they didn't read fine print.
It moved power up from wards and districts and away from people. Greed and paths of max convenience and least resistance. Empty promises they should have known better about did Canadians in.
We have councilors who've been collecting a pay cheque for nothing since 1995. And the people have no recourse.
It also gave away keys to the money printer. Which means, they lied on purpose to present the illusion of number go up on your house through the inflation unfettered money printing inevitably causes.
They don't want to wake up to that reality. The generation that did that, impotent in critical thinking. They thought it would blow up after they were dead (intrinsically short sighted).