AlvinofDiaspar
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That's laughable - so you are basing the ability to conduct aquatic rescues on the availability of boats from a private enterprise? That's your emergency plan?
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It's time for a basic civics lesson Forgotten - http://www.toronto.ca/civic-engagement/learning-material/governance.htm#mayor
Both Matt Elliot and John Tory have made the same claim (that Ford did release a budget smaller than the year), so, at the very least, I'm only parroting what those two Urban-Toronto-approved individuals said.
That is significant. You're seeing the forest for the trees if you don't think any reduction is a huge achievement. Not only is a one-fifth of one percent reduction significant, but a 0.2% increase is significant.
Whether or not he posted a reduction, Ford dramatically slowed the rate of budget increases from the Miller years. Under Ford's tenure, there has been a 0.53% increase in the Gross Operating Budget, compared to a 11.59% increase under Miller's tenure.
I would direct the blame at John Tory! It was John Tory who killed off the amphibious "Hippo Bus"
Again, there are longer-term consequences of inadequately funding the city.The city’s net long-term debt grew by about $800 million in Ford’s first two years of office, 2011 and 2012.
As of the end of 2012, it stood at $3.7 billion, compared with $2.9 billion at the end of 2010, former mayor David Miller’s last year in office.
Perhaps not announcing to the world that his way of dealing with a power failure was to get into his SUV and turning on the air conditioning??
The man is clearly a complete moron. And I'm not using this an an insult, but in the traditional usage, as a measurement of his intelligence.
I take your point, and it's a fair one, but the issue isn't so much the increase in spending, but the increase in debt, and lack of planning for it -- if you're going to do a lot of capital spending, you shouldn't reduce your revenue. You can't increase capital spending and cut taxes and not increase the debt.To be fair, it would have happened regardless because of needed capital spending.
What should he have been doing?
So far, you're the only person on here that I've seen bring up what you actually expect Ford to have done: direct and update emergency services and do media updates.