Comment 32130

By Borrelli (registered) | Posted June 26, 2009 at 13:01:43

"That doesn't give the feds a free ride in refusing to help Toronto catch up, since it was everyone who dropped the ball originally."

Given the financial situation of both TO and the federation right now, I'm not sure you can legitimately use the word "refuse" here. Keep in mind that TO refused to play Baird's (complicated) game in filling out the application in the first place, but it's not as though Toronto couldn't do it--every other municipality was able to navigate the process well enough.

Further, the government of Canada is under no obligation to fund every pet mega-project that the City and TTC come up with--the process was set up so that municipalities have to justify their project against various criteria. This issue has been framed as though meanspirited John Baird is turning away Toronto's legitimate request for vehicles, but I think it's pretty clear that John Baird's mean-spiritedness is independent of Toronto's ability to properly fill out an application for stimulus funding (or properly plan and budget over the longer term, etc.).

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