Henderson: Anything for Toronto
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty kicked sand in the face of a prostrate and defenceless Windsor this week while confirming our long-held suspicion that this struggling region is excess baggage in the province’s eyes.
The guy who told Windsor a few months ago that it must swallow his government’s half-assed border fix, like it or not, showed his true colours in a $9-billion transit snugglefest with the blond, Twitter-crazy leader of Toronto’s latte-sipping socialist hordes,Mayor David Miller.
Say this much for our beloved premier.
The guy, like most bullies, sure knows how to make amends when he runs afoul of someone his own size. It’s one thing to stomp on little old Windsor with its two pathetic seats in the legislature.
It’s quite another to risk the wrath of a metropolis that could bust up the Dalton Gang if it isn’t feeling the love.
And so we were treated to the craven spectacle of McGuinty, who earlier in the week had ticked off the Toronto mayor by removing him from a regional transportation authority, crawling back into his good books with transportation infrastructure gifts totalling a staggering $9 billion, a downpayment on an eventual $50 billion transportation plan for the region.
Headwaiter McGuinty brought everything but the kitchen sink to Miller’s table. You want light rail lines? Stylish, Euro-calibre lines? You got ‘em. You want tunnels with that? Lots of tunnels? No problem.You got ‘em.
It’s mind-boggling, given how the province has stonewalled Windsor’s award-winning GreenLink border fix, refusing to concede an inch of ground, let alone work toward a compromise with that infinitely superior plan, to see it bow and scrape at Toronto’s feet.
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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty kicked sand in the face of a prostrate and defenceless Windsor this week while confirming our long-held suspicion that this struggling region is excess baggage in the province’s eyes.
The guy who told Windsor a few months ago that it must swallow his government’s half-assed border fix, like it or not, showed his true colours in a $9-billion transit snugglefest with the blond, Twitter-crazy leader of Toronto’s latte-sipping socialist hordes,Mayor David Miller.
Say this much for our beloved premier.
The guy, like most bullies, sure knows how to make amends when he runs afoul of someone his own size. It’s one thing to stomp on little old Windsor with its two pathetic seats in the legislature.
It’s quite another to risk the wrath of a metropolis that could bust up the Dalton Gang if it isn’t feeling the love.
And so we were treated to the craven spectacle of McGuinty, who earlier in the week had ticked off the Toronto mayor by removing him from a regional transportation authority, crawling back into his good books with transportation infrastructure gifts totalling a staggering $9 billion, a downpayment on an eventual $50 billion transportation plan for the region.
Headwaiter McGuinty brought everything but the kitchen sink to Miller’s table. You want light rail lines? Stylish, Euro-calibre lines? You got ‘em. You want tunnels with that? Lots of tunnels? No problem.You got ‘em.
It’s mind-boggling, given how the province has stonewalled Windsor’s award-winning GreenLink border fix, refusing to concede an inch of ground, let alone work toward a compromise with that infinitely superior plan, to see it bow and scrape at Toronto’s feet.
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