Comment 77116

By ViennaCafe (registered) | Posted May 18, 2012 at 15:52:35

Please. I grew up in Toronto. I misspent a fair portion of my youth downtown. When I think of Richmond and Adelaide, which I don't often, I think of dark, desolate, empty. When I think of College, Queen, and Dundas, I think of busy, happening, and crowded. And who doesn't?

Minnan-Wong and his allies in council are stuck in the 1970s. They believe that past growth fueled by selling cars and homes, and then restoring, renovating, and maintaining them, and spreading cities out instead of up, can be resurrected if they continue with the stupid, resource wasteful ways of a bygone era.

The 70s are over. The party is over. It was only ever possible due to debt, public and private, anyway. Minnan-Wong and Ford are ideologues who believe that socialism for the wasteful is the best way to achieve economic growth. But it only ever achieves growth in the same way that heroin achieves nirvana: briefly and destructively and with the same slavish devotion.

It is 2012. We are no longer teenagers without any idea of the impact of fossil fueled foolishness on our health and communities. We can no longer build economies around gas stations and fast food restaurants. If we want to live in cities, and every indicator is we do, then we can build cities for future generations or we can build them to fail as soon as energy prices surpass the tipping point.

The current council in Toronto is a council of vandals elected because the Liberal Party decided to punish David Miller and then fronted the only candidate in all of Ontario who could make a Rob Ford appear something other than entirely cartoonish.

And Minnan-Wong? What sort of intelligent, self-respecting human being carries water for an oaf such as Ford? Minnan-Wong. Draw your own conclusions.

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