Your going to vote for someone who is best known for his drunken antics, racist comments, and being charged for wife-beating, simply because you like his subway policy?
Why not? At least with Rob Ford the public knows what its getting.
Or lest we forget the other forerunner had a substance abuse problem and alledgedly took to the services of escorts. I don't know if you have been following George's career, but it is nothing to write home about. First there was the little case of c. difficile. A deadly outbreak that he could have ameliorated simply by making it a reportable infection. After all, only the CMA recommended that and Quebec had already been hit by the infection. George ignored the advice with the result that over 500 people died in Ontario's hospitals. That is more than all the SARS, Walkerton and Listeria fatalities combined. But it wasn't George's fault, it was those pesky hospitals. McGuinty bailed him out with a promotion to Environment and Energy where he couldn't hurt anyone. Or could he? Oh, yes, it was also George who appointed all those people to eHealth. Again, McGuinty has bailed him out. No inquiry into c. difficile and no inquiry into e-Health. So that whole SSHA and eHealth scandal, Green Energy Act scandal, OLGC scandal, need I say more? I don't see you clamoring to warn the electorate about that candidate's dirty laundry. Btw, what is he proposing in regards to public transit expansion that's any better?
Surely one should consider the bigger picture!
The bigger picture is that the Transit City plan is not sustainable nor affordable, the two giant fibs Miller/Giambrone tried to sell the public on. They've had the past 7 years to demonstrate to the public light-rail's worth, and they failed. We never elect good administrators - which is all that municipal politics calls for. Municipal level of government was not created to advance social agendas - it is here to administer infrastructure and essential services on a local level. Instead we get Mayors who fashion themselves to be eco-warriors and bicycle advocates, all the while ignoring the fundamental services and infrastructure that they are here to manage. Underground/grade separated transport is a fundamental requirement for a city of this size, and the framework for that technology mode already exists in the outlying areas. Suburbia doesn't have light-rail, except Long Branch where I've had the misfortune of being left stranded for a half-hour on many occasion awaiting the 501 car meanwhile several MT, 110 and 123 buses; even a GO train showed up.
Not that his subway policy makes any sense ... how would a PPP get the income to pay for construction, and generate their large profits? Can you explain that? Surely it would be a repeat of the Union Pearson disaster.
If the RAV line in Vancouver can be built using PPP, and Veolia Transportation can operate a state-of-the-art BRT system that makes YRT by comparison look like a 1970s network, then why can't the same occur here? Why are Torontonians too apathetic to demand better from their governments and choose instead to chastise any public figure that has the wheretherall to do the asking for us?