If you’re the mayor of Toronto, you need to know that you will wake up one morning with the premier’s knife in your back. It remains a helpful addition to the city’s budgeting, as the mayor and other city councilors acknowledged. If the city plans to spend billions on things like that, how can it cry poor? Even the best-case road toll revenue was not going to be nearly enough to pay for the things mayor Tory and his council have said they want and for the things we all know we need. His further response is that the province that kills tolls now needs to deliver more money for things.

Source: thestar January 27, 2017 23:18 UTC