CanadianNational
Senior Member
Doug Ford openly stated today on the Matlow show that we can't afford "1.4b debt-financed streetcars" and the ".5 billion TTC Garage".
Well, that sounds ominous.
What's interesting about the Ford camp is that the personal issues one would reasonably assume would kind have of died out, are still roasting on their rotisserie. They are nothing if not single-brained. Here you'd think their initial antipathy towards streetcars would have been lost in the flurry of very real, momentous, crisis-producing decisions that are crashing in everywhere...but - nope!
It's hard to stomach that this new "rule-by-error" fad that's sweeping North America knows no bounds.
Is Doug as erroneous with his figures as Rob was during his campaign? He mentioned a $774 million shortfall (while mentioning Greece, Spain, Italy). Any idea what this is supposed to tie to, exactly? Certainly not the swiftly-quoted figures about the dread Red Front streetcars, which outstrip it by two hundred and some-odd percent.
The radio show gaffe about not buying votes was interesting. Essentially, Doug phoned in to tell Matlow off about publicly revealing a private conversation, in which Doug reiterated that unless Matlow was going to be publicly supportive of Doug's schemes [esp. the portlands], Doug wouldn't appear on his show. That's pretty funny - phoning in to deny it by confirming it. Nonetheless, despite being quoted saying "everyone has their price", Doug then says "I [we] don't buy votes".
This on top of the usual quote about their [the brother's] unquestionable integrity. That's starting to sound a bit disturbing - as if they were separated only by mitosis.
I'm afraid "No one questions our integrity" sounds more like the slogan for a discount meat and furniture chain than the offices of the Mayoralty.
My, my, my.
Well, that sounds ominous.
What's interesting about the Ford camp is that the personal issues one would reasonably assume would kind have of died out, are still roasting on their rotisserie. They are nothing if not single-brained. Here you'd think their initial antipathy towards streetcars would have been lost in the flurry of very real, momentous, crisis-producing decisions that are crashing in everywhere...but - nope!
It's hard to stomach that this new "rule-by-error" fad that's sweeping North America knows no bounds.
Is Doug as erroneous with his figures as Rob was during his campaign? He mentioned a $774 million shortfall (while mentioning Greece, Spain, Italy). Any idea what this is supposed to tie to, exactly? Certainly not the swiftly-quoted figures about the dread Red Front streetcars, which outstrip it by two hundred and some-odd percent.
The radio show gaffe about not buying votes was interesting. Essentially, Doug phoned in to tell Matlow off about publicly revealing a private conversation, in which Doug reiterated that unless Matlow was going to be publicly supportive of Doug's schemes [esp. the portlands], Doug wouldn't appear on his show. That's pretty funny - phoning in to deny it by confirming it. Nonetheless, despite being quoted saying "everyone has their price", Doug then says "I [we] don't buy votes".
This on top of the usual quote about their [the brother's] unquestionable integrity. That's starting to sound a bit disturbing - as if they were separated only by mitosis.
I'm afraid "No one questions our integrity" sounds more like the slogan for a discount meat and furniture chain than the offices of the Mayoralty.
My, my, my.
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