While city hall presentations tend to be somewhat mundane, one recent speech at a Toronto budget meeting turned out to be anything but ordinary, as a…
While city hall presentations tend to be somewhat mundane, one recent speech at a Toronto budget meeting turned out to be anything but ordinary, as a local aspiring screenwriter took the opportunity to weave severalDuring the public presentations on the 2025 capital and operating budgets on Jan. 21, Sebastian Decter made a creative case for why the massive Toronto police budget should see no increase this year.
Decter's urge to get involved began in 2020, after attending a memorial for Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a Black woman who died in police custody. A few months later, Decter says he saw footage of the police "violently clearing encampments" and witnessed volunteers who he knew to be part of the encampment support network "dragged across the ground for the crime of caring" about the unhoused.
Decter explains that he uses movie references in his speeches to grab attention, hoping it will help his message reach more people, raise awareness about Progress Toronto, and encourage more people to tell councillors how they feel., and two, they are famously big-budget movies. I knew the police budget would be higher, but I was surprised by how much higher it was," he said.
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