And they are steadily replacing those sewers now. It's happening all over the city.
Guess the current Council's not so dysfunctional after all then, is it? But you'll hafta clue us in on how having half as many people with the same overwhelming amount of stuff to deal with"… will make it easier to get things done".
It's because of Tory and a change in culture. As well the more conservative councillors finally getting together and mitigating the worst of the old NDP block.
Whatever did you intend those last two sentences to convey? We all know that addicted Scarberians and Etobicokers have to live on the streets downtown because their boroughs refuse to help. But who's pissed and who's blamed? I do get that you think having Tory as Mayor, has made Dougie's DooDoo less than necessary. Too bad you and he have such low opinions of democracy and prefer autocrats and such. Some folks learn slow I guess.
Doug Ford is a shining example of a businessman who should not be involved in any level of politics.
Amalgamation occurred back in the late 90s and it sure did not solve the aging infrastructure issues.
Tory has been, for the most part, a better and more productive mayor than the previous mayoral twins Rob and Doug Ford.
Just on the last point, even Lastman managed to get stuff through council and off the drawing boards into the world. So did Miller. Since amalgamation most of the dysfunction has been Ford-generated — some help from Denzil and Mammo — which would seem to make any 'fix' coming from that quarter even more suspect.
WTF are you talking about?
Well considering Doug joined the mayoral race at the 11th hour and came fairly close to beating Tory, I would say that was a pretty good run. And considering how many people voted for him, that would make him very popular.
The Liberals had 15 years to change it if they wanted...I guess they didn't want to. I guess there wasn't enough boondoggle money to be made on that one.
"Doug Ford is a shining example of a businessman who should not be involved in any level of politics."
Just because you were rejected from joining Ford Nation, doesn't mean you need to be so angry.
His business, Deco Labels, is not doing that great since he failed to adapt to the new business requirements and screwing over existing loyal clients to pander to potential new customers.
With an actual record on Council and the family name added to the sympathy vote for poor dying Rob its surprising he and his Nation did so poorly against a liberal Tory who'd never won an election. Except for the PC leadership, and we know that's a cook-off don't we? The only thing that could account for Doug's failure is that Toronto was too smart to be fooled twice. Most of us knew he'd be as lousy at the big job as he was as Councillor and his brother was as Mayor. Same reason most of Toronto voted for anyone but Dougie, provincially. Council's only dysfunctional if you're in the minority and can't figure out how to play nice with others. See Fords, Mammo Denzil et al.
Dude. Even the councillors you mentioned would proudly say they are card carrying left wing members of the NDP.
...which is why big companies like KPMG have moved out of downtown to Vaughn? PWC to Oakville?
As they should, and the people who live and work there should make the decisons about those places (you do know they're separate municipalities don't you?) just as those who live and work in the downtown should decide how it is governed. And all of us who mix and mingle everywhere are the ones who should decide how the whole place operates.
Um. So then the wind farms Wynne set up you would also disagree with?
IF they want to pay for the extravagant thing, by all means. If they're trying to get the entire City to foot the bill, it should be as useful to the entire City as other better options. Open a thread if you want another discussion of the details of those; it's abundantly clear they were less expensive and would have served more of us better.
You just lost the argument.
