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By Brandon (registered) | Posted September 16, 2011 at 14:59:18 in reply to Comment 69752
You're missing the point.
To answer it for you, as you seem unable to grasp some simple concepts, is that he has a single vote.
Regardless of the "rightness" of his position. Regardless of whether or not he personally feels that we can afford LRT or not, it doesn't matter. He cannot unilaterally make decisions to deprioritize things that council has already prioritized.
Part of the problem is that we don't know exactly what the funding status is. We have rumours. We have vague promises from the provincial Liberals. Maybe no one knows. Maybe we have to wait till after the election as the conservatives aren't likely to fund something like this, particularly for NDP leaning Hamilton. We have a mayor who apparently can't be bothered to find out what the facts are as he didn't go back to Metrolynx to ask for confirmation, claiming it was his job to gather facts, not cheerlead for LRT.
If it is going to be funded 100% by the province as some rumours have said then you'd have to be pretty foolish to turn them down. If it is going to be funded only partially then we'd have to look at it more closely depending on the level of funding. If it isn't going to be funded at all we probably can't afford to do it. But until we have those answers, nothing can properly be decided.
What RTH and other LRT supporters are trying to do is get the mayor to come out into the open with his decision making process and convince council openly with his reasons, feelings, instincts, or whatever he feels like using. This is the ugly process known as democracy. The problem with giving people a vote is that sometimes they make the wrong decision which is why you have to persuade them, something the current mayor seems unable or unwilling to do.
As a sidenote, do you seriously believe that it was RTH that led Fred into a false sense of security? Nothing to do with a last second power play by the Cats?
I am disappointment in you're grammar.
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