Ford not delivering on his platform is a fail.
Fords do that.
Ford not delivering on his platform is a fail.
Got a link or are you pulling facts out of your ass again?The Tories already increased Ontario's debt since coming into office.
You making unsubstantiated claims isn't proof of jack shit, dumbass. What exactly has he not delivered on from his platform so far?Ford not delivering on his platform is a fail.
Are you speaking as somebody with control just because of your old EU heritage or as an recent immigrant whose welfare is now reaching into the 2nd and 3rd generation because there is no opportunity for change, rather than they are determined stay on welfare as a career move.Ontario is a great place to live. Try not to parade your ignorance too loudly![]()
Those ones are fixable, why not the other kind?Fords do that.
: Originally Posted by mentalflossView Post
Ford not delivering on his platform is a fail.
Fords do that.
Fords do that.
...because a mountain of previously Provincial expenditures (such as housing for the poor) was downloaded on the City during the Harris years. Toronto has no power of taxation besides user fees and property taxes. The latter are too politically unpopular to raise, despite Toronto having (by far) the lowest Mill Rate of the GTA. More responsibilities to a rapidly growing population with no new revenues coming in ...
The Liberals held power for 15 years after Harris. That complaint about Harris was getting a little thin ten years ago.
This is true. They did didlly squat to fix it. The city had no ability to fix it, at all. It's hard to reverse downloading in the other direction. I don't know how, actually so the city is a victim of bad Provincial policy, yet again.
The downloading started much higher up than the Harris government anyway. It started with the Chretien government cutting transfer payments to all provinces. But they ended up smelling like a rose because Martin balanced the books. He did it on the backs of all provinces, who then downloaded it on all municipalities, but that fact was lost somewhere in the stratosphere.
Lost in the prog agenda.
Lost in the prog agenda.
No, I don't think it's that black and white. The economy was coming back. Martin was showing surpluses in his budgets. People aren't as analytical when there's food in their belly's and a paycheck coming in. It was easier to vilify the Premieres who were left holding the bag and tasked with making tough decisions. In the eyes of Liberal supporters, Paul Martin was an outstanding finance minister because he produced surpluses,even if those surpluses came at the expense of provinces.
We can't build affordable housing for our own people.
The Provinces in turn downloaded a lot of their burden to the municipalities, such as having them provide low cost housing for the poor. The cities do that because it is preferable to having uncontrolled shanty towns spring up, as they do in other urban areas around the World. Since the GTA bears the brunt of most of the immigration into Canada to the tune of over a million a decade, it really should be the Feds covering the costs of relief housing construction as the need is directly a result of Federal immigration policies.