Please don't say "we." I certainly didn't choose this belligerent man-child to lead my city. In what way does Ford show leadership for the Portlands? Do tell.
And in what way is building a much-needed power plant for a thriving, rapidly growing city in an "off the beaten path" setting a waste? Please tell me that also. The Portlands is a huge place. We'd best get used to its reality as a mixed-use zone, because that's the way it's been for a long time now. Besides, I suspect your personal notions of other allegedly ideal "armpit" places in the GTA for such things as power plants would be nothing if not controversial.
About the only thing I can agree with is that there is little vision in this city. But I would go one step further and suggest to you that Rob Ford has only made matters worse. He has zero vision for Toronto. As a politician, he is a one-note wonder, a unidimensional caricature of a man. He has neither the intellect nor the will to comprehensively plan for Toronto's future. Rather than bring people together, he splits them apart. The man is only interested in saving his own blotchy red skin and mindlessly repeating his own mantra of lies and hollow homilies.
The Portlands is certainly a keystone element in terms of future opportunities, but it's not the only one. Lever-Ponds is another large area that could be an intelligent mix of work, live and play. What's needed most is an over-arching plan for the entire GTA, stewarded by someone who can think in terms of twenty and thirty year chunks rather than the relative sliver of time it takes to get re-elected or to do another bump before welcoming yet another photo opportunity.
