Once by Comrade McGinty and once by Comrade Miller and as bad that is the worst is that the people that supplied the Vaseline to these two incompotents appear likely to buy another truckload........
Dalton opened the cookie jar for the mayor |
As if it were yesterday, I still recall that day nearly two years ago when Premier Dalton McGuinty bestowed on Toronto the powers of a "mature, responsible government."
Flanked by adoring Liberal supporters and David Miller's enthusiastic team -- with a view of the city's downtown behind him -- McGuinty said he expected the City of Toronto Act (COTA) would force the mayor and council to do their very best. In other words, they would not use their new powers to tax people to death.
"I am very confident they will do what is necessary to grow this city in the best possible way," he said at the time.
I couldn't help but laugh that day as I listened to the premier deliver yet another nose stretcher in what had become a string of broken election promises.
Still, talk about famous last words.
Months before the draft act was introduced, leaders from 15 brand-name business groups formed a coalition to try to convince the provincial Liberals what the city was really after were "broad permissive" powers to licence, regulate and impose all kinds of new tax levies.
Their pleas fell on deaf ears. Yet they couldn't have better predicted how our tax-and-spend mayor and his merry band of socialists would use their new powers.
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