Not successful ? Based on what ?

The GM Bailout for Oshawa is but a pin prick in the 40 year old Transit Infrastructure deficit in the GTA. I noticed that GM is adding a 3rd shift to the Oshawa Plant that should be great for the tax base of the local area & Ontario. This discussion of the funding framework between the GTA &...

Yeah better consign "lofty goals" to the dustbin & try begging the Premier of Ontario for 1 penny from the Gas Tax :rolleyes:

More people would probably turn out for a protest against all the new taxes you propose.

Nothing is insurmountable ! More layers of tax are not the answer ! Freedom from Ontario is the answer whereby we can collect & distribute taxes as we agree fit. I haven't been advocating Tax Cuts (well expect for doing away with Property taxes or reducing them significantly). As A...

Transit City should never have been contemplated with LRT ! An Express Bus Service modelled on York Regions VIVA is what should have been proposed with routes along Steeles, Finch, Wilson/York Mills/Ellesmere, Lawrence, Eglinton, Don Mills, Victoria Park, Warden, Kennedy, McCowan, etc. etc...

Waste of time. My 40 years of experience has told me that Queen's Park doesn't give a Rat's for the people of Toronto. The idiots we've been electing from the GTA to sit in Queen's Park as MPP's have by & large been a collection of bankbench do nothing Muppet's doesn't matter which Party they...

No Thanks you want to tax the people of Toronto more, a GST, a PST & a MST ! A better idea would be a Province of Toronto that collected it's own Sales, Income, Liquor taxes ran it's own Casino's & lotteries & did away with the Property Tax ! You use US Municipalities/Counties as an...

You replace them with MPP's & MP's from a "Toronto Party" based a bit upon the Bloc Quebecois, a Toronto/GTA Centric party that only cares about the specific concerns of the citizens of the Toronto Area & the eventual Provincehood of the GTA. It doesn't have to be a so-called "fringe party"...

Why the bulk ? Based on what ? Figures show that more leaves the GTA in taxes than is returned in services. Why is a Province of Toronto a silly concept what personal benefit do you derive from being a citizen of Ontario ?

The War ended the Depression. There was full-employment in fact Women were employed due to the shortage of labour. There was nothing to buy for consumers so people saved much of their income. The economy readjusted itself from a Wartime economy to a consumer economy taking several years with...

Assuming part of Ontario's Debt is a non-issue for me as we are already on the hook for it being citizens of Ontario. You say "significant portion" well that would be up for negotiation remembering that citizens of the GTA send far more in taxes & fees to Queen's Park than are received back in...

:rolleyes: Yeah subsidising the Forest Hill set getting to their cottages in Honey Harbour on well paved multi-lane Highways should be a TOP priority for residents of the GTA :confused:

Yeah it's better to continue getting screwed than to tackle red tape.

So you prefer to continue with the status quo whereby we beg an Ontario Premier & Government for as in your example a 5 of the Ontario Income Tax :rolleyes: A % that on a whim could be changed or witheld :mad: What benefit to Toronto or conversly to the Province of Ontario do you see from...

I'm sure Mr. Flaherty, won't mind getting the money back.

No ! Toronto needs to leave Ontario & become a Province in it's own right !

I couldn't agree more with you ! Out of all the "Transit City" projects these two are the most stupid. Sheppard should have been an extension project of the Sheppard Line & the Scarborough RT should be scrapped & replaced with an extension of the Bloor-Danforth Line !

Probably this is a better idea with the hopeful result of decreased peak hour overcrowding.

A Zone Fare System is a complete non-starter without an Automated Fare Payment System.