You have to wonder how many library books $150K would buy or how many community centres could be opened, etc.
Quit whining Miller: Flaherty |
His Blondness may as well pack up his One Cent Now paraphernalia -- the buttons, the glossy flyers, the posters, the transit ads, the billboards -- and flush the $150,000 it cost taxpayers down a city sewer.
Despite Mayor David Miller's highly arrogant claims at a series of press events in recent months that his campaign to exact one cent of the GST action is "gaining momentum" (and a posse of Canadian mayors are behind him), it appears his efforts have fallen completely flat in Ottawa.
Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty confirmed that in an exclusive interview earlier this week.
When asked whether Toronto's mayor -- or any Canadian mayor -- can expect to get a one-cent share of the GST, Flaherty said: "No ... It's just not in the cards."
"He would have been better off using the money (the $150,000 ) to study efficiencies in municipal government," added Flaherty, also the minister responsible for the GTA.
The finance minister said the aim of the Harper government is to reduce taxes in Canada. "We are not interested in raising taxes," he said. "We are firmly committed to each order of government getting its own house in order."
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are we surprised? This is is the very same finance minister in the Harris days. So why on earth would Miller think for one second he would be successful in getting even a drop of blood from them?
You might want to open your mind and look at what the feds, and the province, allocate to Toronto on an annual basis and weigh that against the way the city spends those dollars. As someone pointed out the decisions made at Toronto City Hall should be funded by the taxpayers of Toronto. What happens in Toronto should stay in Toronto.
now just imagine if 'what happens in Toronto' actually stayed in Toronto...
we'd have more money than we'd know what to do with.
I have never suggested there aren't ways to 'clean house', but this non stop rallying diffuses the issue.
Look at that complete twit Pitfield. She hasn't figured out what the shortfall is actually about. I suppose we don't need road repairs. Man we would have been in real trouble...
Comprehension, comprehension, comprehension......
I said "decision" made in Toronto NOT what "happens" in Toronto. If you can't get the premise correct then you reply is irrelevant.
no, you said 'what happens in Toronto should stay in Toronto'.
Your exact words.
Your previous sentence referred to 'decisions'. If that was what you meant, then constructing the sentence differently would have conveyed that.
We were talking about Toronto taxpayers and Toronto decisions afterall weren't we?
Well so was I if you missed it.
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