CITY HALL HAS AN INFORMATION PROBLEM London.ca contains a lot of information. That is not the same as being transparent. The average taxpayer shouldn't need to understand committees, agendas, reports, PDFs and engagement portals to answer three basic questions: What is City Hall about to do? What will it cost? When can I have a say? The information exists. But taxpayers often have to assemble it themselves. That's a participation tax. The solution isn't more information. It's better signal. Create a prominent **WHAT CITY HALL IS ABOUT TO DECIDE** dashboard showing: • Upcoming policy changes • Implementation dates • Capital and annual operating costs • Taxpayer impact • Decision dates • Public input deadlines • Plain-language explanations • One-click access to the underlying reports Offer optional alerts when policies affecting property, businesses, neighbourhoods or taxes are moving toward implementation. **Taxpayers should demand this.** Ask every Council candidate one simple question: **Will you support a public dashboard that tells taxpayers, in plain language, what City Hall is about to decide, what it will cost, and when they can still influence it?** Then judge the answer. **If taxpayers have to become bureaucrats to understand City Hall, the system is transparent on paper and opaque in practice.** Voir plus