Hehehehe, quite true. Sometimes the anti-Ford and/or leftist crowd gets a little confused when a politician follows up on election promises.
The lost "Car Tax" revenue will be re-couped through cost-cutting measures per other municipal programs. I am not saying that he will cut services, there is no doubt cost saving opportunities via other means such as attrition, elimination of consultants, out-sourcing, etc.
He comes across as a regular schmoe, but he is certainly a rich schmoe. More power to him. His family has a successful business and he has surrounded himself with business oriented people - Good move. The city needs to be run more business like than it has been in the past.
Watching CP24 this am regarding the roads - A lot of issues related to street-cars or buses being delayed or diverted due to weather/road conditions...but all reports stated that the subways were running on time.
Cities don't run like businesses. They just don't. And that's not always a bad thing.
I remember about 15 years ago, the City of Etobicoke hired this guy to be their Commissioner of Works (which at the time was one of the most powerful postions in the city). The City of Etobicoke hired this Engineer with an MBA from Dofasco who said "I'm going to run this group like a business" (Seriously.)
His bright idea was that there was to be no overtime for City Employees. Ever.
So when watermains started breaking at night, or better yet on a weekend, his directive was that the reapairs would wait till first thing Monday morning, or the next morning, NO OVERTIME. We're going to run this like a business.
Well, it was all well and good till Etobicoke could not rationalize its water bill with then Metro Works. Seems Mr. Business Man forgot that broken watermains would waste a lot of water (that Metro would send Etobicoke a big bill for) and wreck the road structures. It was far cheaper to pay the city guys to come in in the night and stop the flow as quickly as possible.
Then there was the recent mayor of the City of Ottawa Larry Obrien who figured that he would run Ottawa "like a business" Well, that didn't work out so well either. I think he was charged with corruption and ended up being a 1 term Mayor after it became apparent that he had no freaking idea of what he was doing.