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  1. The TPA has a history of dodging things.

  2. The Conservative candidate for Don Valley West failed to note that the federal government’s cash take from Toronto has never been bigger. No problem with money flowing in that direction. Why would anyone in Don Valley West give this clown the time of day?

  3. Maybe because lower taxes will actually help the constituents?

    Maybe because they are sick and tired of the mismanagement of the Miller Dictatorship?

    Seriously, I have hard times believing that the city has fallen on hard times. They only got to this point by giving away money to any Miller-friendly entity in this city.

  4. How could the tens of thousands of impoverished constituents in the Thorncliffe and Flemingdon neighbourhoods have forgotten that it’s actually in their interest to have their income tax decreased?!? Oh right, I know how: most of them don’t make enough to see even a penny more!

    The vast majority of the residents in Don Valley West need a compassionate government that will give them a hand up. All Harper offers them is a kick in the teeth.

  5. I’m not sure how Mr. Cheung thinks a Miller “dictatorship” is somehow responsible for the tax inequity that the Cons seem to be exacerbating. They collect more money than flows back into Toronto and refuse to invest it in Toronto with, say, a national transit strategy.

    Mr Cheung is correct that Toronto hasn’t fallen on hard times — it would be better if our federal government started investing in cities instead of laothing their residents and their voting patterns.

  6. I dont know where people get their strange ideas about Miller Dictatorships and such…they seem to forget that we had 10 years of Mike Harris (who forced amalgamation against peoples wishes speaking of dictatorships), two terms of the incompetent Lastman, and now a Liberal government that still has yet to restore funding to even close to what it was. And of course we have Harper who does not like cities or Canadian Culture who has basically abandoned Toronto unless there is a pre election photo op involved. I am not 100% a fan of Miller but those that use Toronto Sun style rhetoric seem to be a bit out of touch with how hard it is to manage a city after all this abuse. And it is so easy to rant Rob Ford like solutions but the reality is cities need money or they crumble. Quality of life costs money.