A cost-cutting conservative government at Queen’s Park is a weird opportunity for Torontonians who want to see the city shift into a higher gear
Premier Doug Ford’s antipathy toward the city government he ran to lead five years ago exploded last week in an attack against Toronto mayor John Tory, who has been campaigning alongside other Ontario mayors against provincial funding cuts for public health.
The missive came after an insufferable weeks-long argument between elected officials at the municipal and provincial levels as to who exactly should be said to be cutting public health programs like school nutrition, immunization monitoring and water testing: The province for withdrawing the funding, or the city for allocating the cuts to those programs. “Who the hell cares?” I imagine the vast majority of people would respond.
It’s perfectly reasonable that Toronto’s politicians would want voters to understand why they’re doing whatever they end up doing to mitigate these cuts. Ford ran on painless efficiencies without a single public sector job loss; that nobody believed him doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be called out on reneging. And when the Premier claims to have found $1 billion in efficiencies at City Hall, suggesting the city can easily make up the difference, it’s also entirely fair to call BS.
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