In Fillmore’s absence, Halifax continues defunding the police. Last week, most of Halifax’s city council tried to debate the future of public safety services in the HRM. Only they were missing one key voice from those discussions: The mayor’s. While council waded through a bevy of issues over the course of two days, ranging from emergency response times to Halifax’s approach to homelessness, Andy Fillmore was, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the mayor’s schedule, likely wading into the Caribbean Sea…