The Miller Era

four months into our hellish nightmare come reality of a Toronto ruled by the pig headed narrow minded Rob Ford and it is clear the next 4 years are going to be agonizing.
     The issues i have when it comes to Rob Ford are vast, but my biggest one is that this man and the vast majority of men and woman who put him in office dont like this city, and have no concept of what it means to be a city. These people dont want to be in a city because their lives up until amalgamation were suburban lives. But in 1998 the Harris government made a decision which would put those living the suburban dream smack dab in the very city they loathed. the very city they eagerly awaited to depart each work day. Living in the city of York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, and North York meant you did not care much for silly things like community centers with free programs for kids, or pools, ice rinks, soccer fields, baseball diamonds and other city funded extras. Those people lived in new neighbourhood in sprawling subdivisions with little in the way of sidewalks and few public parks. Transit was not needed since these community's of the future, a backwards 1950's notion that cars are the only way to move around. and for those whom needed to ride transit well under Metro the TTC ran buses through these areas. So the people who elected rob ford to office resent the the fact that now they pay slightly more in property tax to fund things they have never used because their former municipality's never provided them. these people don't like cities so when you force them into one obviously the result will be upheaval. Now we will suffer and by we i mean the good people of Toronto. Real Toronto before it was unfairly burdened with the sprawling maze of single family detached homes called Metro.