Toronto really should separate
The time has come for the city of Toronto to separate from the rest of Ontario.
A new provincial legislature should be built in, say, Barrie or Owen Sound. A deputy premier and a tribunal could sit in on Toronto business but the inordinate provincial legislature time and money spent in Toronto would, and should, come to a halt.
We ratepayers in the rest of the province could get the money we need instead of our taxes being used to make over Mayor David Miller's office. If Toronto can't run its "corporation" without going bankrupt, then so be it, the city goes bust.
If Toronto wants handguns banned, then do the same as New York City and ban them inside the city limits -- but leave the rest of Canada alone. I'm not aware of a handgun crime problem outside Toronto. Are you?
If the Mayor wants to spend several million dollars renovating his office and City Hall, then let him. But he has to get ALL the money from his constituents, not from the taxes of the rest of Ontario. Don't tell me that provincial taxpayers' money from, say, Gravenhurst, doesn't end up in the general coffers of Toronto through grants. It does!
Toronto, Toronto, Toronto, Gimme, gimme, gimme!
The mayor and his council are constantly crying that they cannot run their "house" on the money coming in. They should raise city taxes and user fees until they can. It's that simple.
But leave us tax payers in the rest of the province alone. "No more money to Toronto".
Sounds like a good election slogan for the upcoming provincial election. I'd vote for that.
ROBERT F. DAVIS
WOODVILLE, ONT.