Really? Well I'm referring to the very high vacancies, high rents pushing everyone normal out (both businesses and people who just can't afford to live down there now), the high crime rates, the petty crime like property theft and robberies of stores (either for goods or money), the literal shanty towns we have all over the place, the strung out drug addicts the police seem to refuse to do anything about (if I started to fight people while drunk or high, then took someone's bike to steal from the LCBO I would expect to get arrested), the overdoses, the hazardous used needles and human waste all over the place and the Marxist-Leninst protest movement that has convinced unfortunate homeless people to camp out there so Julian Ichim can LARP as a revolutionary. You can go down there and find him literally helping people smoke fentanyl in the gazebo. I'm not even kidding. There's a picture of him doing it in The Record. This is of course only scratching the surface of things. I guess I should add the street kids that are being groomed by adult street people, who have now been found to be sexually trafficking them and providing them with drugs.
Maybe you see these things in a different light than I do, but to me any many others, it has ruined our downtown that was otherwise on the right track to having a comeback after the dreadful 1990s. It is the 1990s again, only worse because back then people didn't use fentanyl. This is not an environment a lot of people want to be in...whether it's to go for a walk, rent a business or buy a home.
Maybe you see these things in a different light than I do, but to me any many others, it has ruined our downtown that was otherwise on the right track to having a comeback after the dreadful 1990s. It is the 1990s again, only worse because back then people didn't use fentanyl. This is not an environment a lot of people want to be in...whether it's to go for a walk, rent a business or buy a home.