Since I get the feeling most of you are Americans, and I have no idea how much anything that goes on in Toronto is repoted outside of it
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I signed the petition, even though I am a US citizen and wrote a thoughtful email, stating that though I was from the US, I felt that the role of libraries in our communities (summer school reading, creative workshops, free DVD/music rentals, tutoring etc) was valuable. And received a nice form letter from your mayor's office on how nice it was to hear from Toronto residents.
Yeah I admit to not knowing much about Canadian politics but I always found it strange that Toronto (which I hear so often called Canada's New York, super liberal / progressive) would elect such a crazy conservative as their mayor. He wants to kill transit and bike infrastructure and said the War on Cars is over. Wtf? How does that even happen? Crazy. Scary even.
This was a lot of our reaction as well; largely it was because a] he was the only actually strong candidate, b] it turned into Ford vs Everybody Else during the election, so people who disliked one of the other guys voted for him, and c] everybody on the left/liberal side of the spectrum had a very obvious flaw or past transgression.
We also just had a liberal/progressive mayor that a lot of people disliked, and Ford did a very good job of distancing himself from everything he did and wanted to do.
(Also: he made a lot of "guarantees", which sounds better than "promises" but apparently are just as easily ignored once they're in office -- go figure. He had broken two campaign promises/guarantees by day two of officially being mayor.)
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Cutting fluoridation?
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Still: that was on there as a possibility.
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http://www.themarysue.com/toronto-doug-ford-margaret-atwood/
I signed the petition, even though I am a US citizen and wrote a thoughtful email, stating that though I was from the US, I felt that the role of libraries in our communities (summer school reading, creative workshops, free DVD/music rentals, tutoring etc) was valuable. And received a nice form letter from your mayor's office on how nice it was to hear from Toronto residents.
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if they did that they're assholes.
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Ford can kiss my ass.
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We also just had a liberal/progressive mayor that a lot of people disliked, and Ford did a very good job of distancing himself from everything he did and wanted to do.
(Also: he made a lot of "guarantees", which sounds better than "promises" but apparently are just as easily ignored once they're in office -- go figure. He had broken two campaign promises/guarantees by day two of officially being mayor.)
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