People who read my threads during the election campaign for Mayor of Toronto will know that I criticized John Tory's
Tax Increment Financing
plan for transit expansion as unrealistic and unworkable. I regarded it as "snake oil" designed to misle the learned voters of this fair city,
Tronna.
It worked. The Family Compact's Man fooled enough people to get elected.
I slunk off into a corner, with my tail between my legs like a whipped dog, clutching my quart of Jack Daniels. The cosmeticians had won. The Two
Stooges, my candidates, the Ford bothers, had lost. Prim and proper Toronto could finally get on with the important tasks in life, free from the Ford
foolishness. It was time to fluff up one's feathers and settle again into four years of uninterrupted, self-congratulatory smugness.
Meanwhile John Tory, now in office, could begin to squirm with as much dignity as he could muster, into his opponent's campaign platform as regards
transit financing. Sources of revenue were suddenly an issue with Mr. Tory.
Fair enough. As every Canadian should know, saying one thing on the campaign trail and doing another when in office, is an old Canadian tradition.
"Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription", "Zap! You're frozen."
As one of my reprobate uncles used to say, "Bingada-bangada-bush-ducrooop! Two-buckets-a-watta-one-onion." Right. I vote for that.
Like an eggheaded imbecile, I had demonstrated, factually, with graph, that Tax Increment Financing was not good for Toronto. I used government
documents as sources. Torontonians ignored me. (I know most Torontonians don't even know of my existence, but I also know that certain Torontonians,
of influence, know very well that I exist.)
I had the temerity to suggest that Mr. Tory's "real" as opposed to "campaign" plan for transit financing would involve the sell off of city assets.
Well, that hasn't happened so far, but guess what folks,
BEER IS GOING TO BE SOLD IN GROCERY STORES!!!!!
BEER IS GOING TO BE SOLD IN GROCERY STORES!!!!!
BEER IS GOING TO BE SOLD IN GROCERY STORES!!!!!
. . . . and Mr. Tory's endorsers at the provincial level are going to sell off 60% of Ontario Hydro to fund transit expansion. Imagine that. Who'da
thunk it? Nobody who voted for Mr. Tory, that's for sure.
There is no way to build transit and maintain our commitments to
ATO, the American Treaty Organization, without selling off assets at any and
all levels, adopting the privatization ethos of the Republican Party in the US, and drinking more JD as the country I grew up in goes down the
drain.
www.thestar.com...
Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals will sell off 60 per cent of the province’s $16-billion Hydro One transmission utility to bankroll new
transit infrastructure, the Star has learned.
Queen’s Park will retain a 40 per cent stake and minority shareholders will be limited to a 10 per cent ownership, sources say.
At the same time, Hydro One Brampton and Hydro One Networks’ distribution arm will be spun off into a separate company and sold outright for up to
$3 billion.
The Hydro One changes — and a plan to allow the sale of beer in about 300 supermarkets — are key recommendations in a major report to be released
Thursday by Wynne’s privatization guru Ed Clark, the former TD Bank CEO.
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