First of all Ford and Tory are in completely different categories.
Ford promised to cancel the on-street LRT and did. He did it very promptly to minimize any wasting of money. He agreed to work with the Provincial Liberals and found a compromise solution, which they found within a year (which would also later be found to be the best).
Tory promised to stick with the planned subway, which both the City and Province, supported. He argued that the cost of switch back and forth was wasteful.
So both of these men actually kept their promises from the mandates they were given.
The Gas Plant type scandal was from the Liberals.
- After the Ford-McGuinty agreement to build the combined ECLRT/SRT, Metrolinx studied the proposal in detail.
- In June 2012, Metrolinx concluded that this was the best option.
- The Liberals would not release this to the public - meaning that City Council had to vote (in fall of 2012) on which transit proposal to proceed with, without this vital piece of information.
- In winter 2013, Wynne's Liberals already started to sabotage the 3 month old agreement, and not with the solution that was analyzed to be the best, but with their own political plan.
- The Liberals ran the summer by-election as the subway champions - again publicly going against the agreement they just signed and against the solution that Metrolinx had found to be best.
- In fall of 2013, after all the dust had settled, they quietly released the June 2012 Metrolinx report after an FOI request. However, not after they had shifted the transit debate to a plan that would cost Billions more.
Anyone who hasn't read the in depth review by
John Lorinc is not seeing the whole picture.