Primary role of a mayor is to set the agenda and form voting blocks to drive the agenda through council.

The Chief Planner does not have this clout. The Chief Planner is not an elected representative. The Chief Planner reports to the Mayor and serves at the pleasure of the Mayor who choose who the Chief Planner is and can fire the Chief Planner at any time. Please explan how they have the same clout.

Moreover, she was firmly against the scarborough subway and all of the evidence as to why we shouldnt pursue that plan was there and backed her up. Yet the Mayor and council still chose to go that route. One cannot force people to do evidenced-based policy when they openly are hostile to it and choose to make decisions that flies in the face of the city specialists own recommendations.

council allready sees her as a failure

Please show us the evidence for this. She was actually very-well respected as Chief Planner. If she was a fialure then it is not likely she would have been Chief Planner under two different councils and two different Mayors with the end of her term being her decision to quite, not being pushed out. Again, please explain to use how being Chief Planner under different councils and two different Mayors and not being pushed out or asked to leave equates with the idea of council seeing her as a failure.