Durgan said:
Toronto has to be the most incompetently run city in Canada. The feather-bedded civil service is bloated beyond description. After almagamation all the burg's civil service was incorporated with very little centralization. More people doing the same job.
The Police Commission is a disaster, run by the Police Union.
Gridlock is the norm.
They cannot solve their garbage problem after 15 years of dithering.
A one time budget chief used to keep his money under his Mother-in-Laws mattress. He almost made Mayor.
The City spent 80 million on $10 thousand worth of computers. The original contract was 40 million. Then the city had a public inquiry and spend another 115 million trying to decide why the contract went from 40 milion ot 80 million. Nobody went to jail.
I personally consider anything south of the 401, which runs across the north part of the city, to be another planet.
Toronto the Good, avoid it unless you have to get an education of U of T, which basically is an extension of the University of China.
Durgan.
That's nothing the City of Toronto Spends close to One Billion Dollars a month. That's One Thousand Million Dollars. It just got more power to be even more autonymous AND they are not under any Auditor General type Audits OR even any deep auditing at par with what publicly traded corporations like Enron or Worldcom where under.
Now considering the New City of Toronto would have something like a $250 Billion dollar "Market Cap" (using Stock Market analogy for rule of thumb for equivalence tp get at an effective business worth), what does anyone expect with executive directors of no significant competence for managing such increadibly large business activity?
The amalgamation of Toronto was the biggest blunder in Canadian History, and they just threw more gas on that fire by giving them even more autonomy to do as they please with even less oversight and scrunity.
I think the province is trying to distance itself from that mess by giving them more self-direction and control. I thought they tell people to take the keys from drunks at the bar not help them to get a faster car.
Before they gave Toronto more responsibility, you would think they made sure they are able to be responsible first. It been going down hill ever since the amagamation and they blame everything but the amalgamation for it.