Ten Things You Won't See Comrade Miller Do

They are all good ideas and a positive approach to problem solving but Miller will continue to blame everyone else in order to protect his feifdom which is populated by social in-activists, environuts, unions, waterfront condo owners and island squatters.

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The mayor should have seen this fiscal crisis coming. Still, it's not too late to do something about it. Here's our plan

August 25, 2007

Royson James
City hall columnist

Days before he was re-elected mayor, David Miller said: "Our city is stronger, thanks to sound fiscal management and new partnerships with the federal and provincial governments to bring hundreds of millions of dollars of new investment in policing, transit, child care and the waterfront."

He boasted that in three years he'd wrung more money from Ottawa and Queen's Park than his predecessors had in three decades.

The future – Toronto by 2010 – looked great.

Torontonians returned Miller to city hall. But within months, citizens were brooding over a very different Toronto, one where community centres are to be closed on Mondays, libraries on Sundays, sidewalks left snow-covered. What went wrong?