If I have a litmus test for politicians, it might be this: if they don’t understand the value of public libraries, then I don’t trust them. Because a person who doesn’t understand public libraries doesn’t understand community, and doesn’t understand civilization. According to the Toronto Public Library, 70 per cent of Torontonians use the library regularly, which is an astonishingly high usage rate for a public service. Like cutting the provincial library service budget in half, overnight. Have your sayTo be clear — and fair — this isn’t a cut to the budgets of local library branches, which are generally run and operated by municipal or regional governments.

Source: thestar April 18, 2019 21:56 UTC