John Tory
John Tory
John Howard Tory, OOntis a Canadian politician who is the 65th and current mayor of Toronto...
alarming call
That is very disconcerting, very alarming and should be a wakeup call to all of us,
rules violation
There has been a subversion or violation of the rules, intentional or not.
rules
Even the rules that are in place are not being followed.
allow boil complex diverse issues leadership polarized society tests
One of the tests of leadership in a diverse society is that you not allow issues like this -- which are complex -- to boil over into angry, polarized debates.
costs delays encounter huge information massive requests roadblocks simple
Simple information requests encounter huge roadblocks or exorbitant costs and there are massive delays in getting information.
blocked since year
Since I've been here, which is just a year now, we have been blocked at every turn,
impact realize
When you come here you realize all these things are real and have an impact on peoples' lives.
believe sure word
I think his word is in such tatters I'm not sure why we'd believe that calculation,
comfort jobs losing north people
People in communities in the north are losing their jobs and this announcement will be little comfort to them,
believe care health pay
People, I think in many cases, believe that health care is free. And it's not free. They pay for it through their taxes.
acting apply both certainly cities deserving governance large larger maybe
Some of these powers, both governance and otherwise, should probably apply to some of the other larger cities in Ontario, that are maybe not as large as Toronto, but are certainly big governments deserving of acting in a more independent fashion.
basically exception
I think we've had basically 20-to-25 years, with the exception of the 427, where we've had nothing built.
business cent eight government huge per understand
I think it's important to have the government understand that's huge - eight per cent of anybody's business is huge.
chicken game
I don't think it's as much a game of chicken as it is a game of bully-boy on the part of the government.