Tank: Budget votes hold meaning in democracies like Saskatoon

Don’t bother asking whether your Saskatoon city councillor voted for the 2018 budget. None of them technically voted for it.
City hall discontinued the practice of holding a final, official vote on the budget and property tax increase in 2015. The previous year, three city councillors voted against the 2015 budget with a property tax increase they considered too high.
The 2015 property tax increase of 5.34 per cent remained in place, following the 2014 increase of 7.34 per cent. The practi