Can we please ban the term "fiscal conservative"??
Anyone proposing a multi-billion dollar subway project is not, by definition, a fiscal conservative. They will need to extract revenues out of the public one way or another - whether they admit it or not.
Also, a real fiscal conservative would have a plan to "reduce the size and cost of government", as Rob Ford likes to say. So far I have not seen any of the so-called fiscal conservatives come clean about what they're going to cut government (including Ford himself). Are they going to start by laying off police officers? Maybe they'll close down a few community centres. Tory cries to the media about closing down the ice rinks early, but where would he get the million dollars to keep them open?
While we're at it, let's ban "tax and spend" as well. Conservatives like to criticize Miller for being a "tax and spend" mayor, but few are willing to criticize any of the projects that he spent money on. When they do, they usually offer alternatives that are even MORE expensive (e.g. subways over LRTs, separated bike lanes over on-road bike lanes, rebuilding the Gardiner over demolishing it).
Face it, the Left is far more fiscally RESPONSIBLE when it comes to urban governance. The fiscal policies of the Right are nothing but shameless pandering.