Maybe you should read the rest of that piece..
This brings us to what may be Mr. Ford’s signature accomplishment: The approval, pending further madness, of the Scarborough subway. This was done against expert evidence, and Mr. Ford sold it — with ample assistance from fellow councillors and the provincial Liberals and Progressive Conservatives — using a two-pronged strategy of lying through his teeth (he still insists the LRT project would have competed with vehicular traffic) and stoking infantile neighbourhood grievances: “Downtown has enough subways,” Mr. Ford actually said; now it’s time for parts of the city that empirically cannot support subways to get them too!
And how did the arch-conservative Mr. Ford make this mad dream come true? He raised Torontonians’ property taxes.
That’s bad governance, pure and simple. Back when liberals believed in overbuilding subways, conservatives rightly howled at the wastefulness of it. It’s fine to want a mayor who’s conservative. What Toronto has is a mayor whose mouth proclaims revolutionary, irreplaceable conservatism far louder than his perfectly decent fiscal record.
