To Answer The Rabbi's Question........

......when Comrade Miller and his lackeys quit being such schmuks and get their house in order.

If Tories not for cities now, when?
TheStar.com

November 01, 2007
Jim Coyle

Not so very long ago, though it sometimes seems another lifetime, Bob Rae – when he had ceased to be a New Democratic premier, but had not yet become a federal Liberal – was fond of quoting the three questions of Rabbi Hillel.

Hillel was one of the most respected Jewish teachers of his time, the Babylon of 1st Century BC, and the first two of the rabbi's questions went thusly:

"If I am not for myself, who is for me?" An acknowledgement, Rae said, of the enduring and undeniable value of self-interest. "But if I am only for myself, what am I?" A prod, Rae suggested, to the need for generosity and justice in a world too much given to greed.

The third and final question was more succinct.

"If not now, when?"

In the wake of this week's federal mini-budget, with its refusal to pony up a share of the GST to Canada's cities, Toronto Mayor David Miller could be forgiven for joining the rabbi's fan club, too.

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