denfromoakvillemilton
Senior Member
Question in the thread title.
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Question in the thread title.
Relocate the homeless industry from high value downtown locations to the 'burbs. Very few cities with densely populated successful downtowns dedicate large portions for populating the nation's homeless.
Stick the the basics of city services and keep the city's hands out of my pockets as much as possible.
Secession from Ontario, the province which consistently shows that it just doesn't want to understand big city issues. Ontario, the province with its hands so deeply in Toronto's pockets. Lose Ontario and get the show on the road, T.O.
Why is it always the knee-jerk response of some Canadians to threaten to split apart? Are our unions as tenuous as this? Are we that incapable of playing nicely with one another? Seems fairly parochial to me.
... and isn't this very divisiveness a defining characteristic of the city itself with its balkanized ethnic enclaves and intractable interest groups? There is no bigger vision in Toronto, no sense of collectivity that might define us as being larger than the sum of our parts. Yes, it's true that Toronto is woefully underfunded and that it deserves more from our provincial and federal leaders but I suspect that even if they did throw more cash at this embarrassingly prosperous place its streets would still look a mess as myopic, self-interested parties vie for spoils.
De-amalgamation. It's not an us vs them issue. Both Scarborough and Etobicoke will be better off just as Toronto will be better off.
My travels take me to deepest Ontario where hatred for the city and its values runs deep.
More importantly, however, no matter what the flavour of the provincial (and I do mean provincial) government, they love to give us the shaft because they can. McGuinty and Co. decried the downloading implemented by the Harris gang, but are slow to turn things around. The "gap" still exists.
A city as prosperous as this should already have an adequate subway system .... and so on. Crises get invented at the provincial level; we know, at the local level, what our needs are and the rurals just don't get that part.
I define "rich" as the amount of revenue left over after expenses are paid. If you've got no money left after you've paid the bills, it doesn't matter if you've got the highest revenue on the planet.Stop acting like we're poor. I know I sound like a broken record but we're the richest city in one of the richest countries in the world.