01-27-2017, 01:41 PM
(01-27-2017, 11:13 AM)Markster Wrote:(01-27-2017, 11:03 AM)MidTowner Wrote: There could have been a way to frame it in which the provincial government took the attitude that it was rubber-stamping a proposal from the City of Toronto, and it washes its hands of it.
Not going to work.
The pitchforks would rise high with cries of "Wynne could have stopped it!" "Wynne's new road taxes!" "It's her fault!"
The anti-Wynne crowd doesn't need much to go on these days.
I'm disappointed with the decision too. Toronto is stuck in a situation where they're forced to maintain a very expensive road, but they don't get to choose how they fund it.
There's a group of people that will never be happy with Wynne (or any Government) and I suspect that group intersects pretty heavily with the people who would blame her for the tolls. So I don't really see much downside in her allowing Toronto to introduce the toll.
But I'm going to assume they have better polling / public relations people and they know something I don't because I highly doubt this was any sort of principled decision.