{"id":3682,"date":"2008-10-08T10:44:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/10\/08\/premier-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:06:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:06:52","slug":"premier-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/10\/08\/premier-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier: Do as I say, not as I do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1055\/813772407_c7b7441e5e.jpg?v=0\" height=\"411\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 411px\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Premier Dalton McGuinty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/news\/torontoandgta\/2008\/10\/08\/7012216-sun.html\">thinks<\/a> Toronto City Council should freeze taxes as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153symbolism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of government taking action in tough economic times.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that cute?<\/p>\n<p>This is a premier whose government has racked up multi-billion dollar surpluses while our city, in the middle of an economic boom, was struggling to make ends meet. This is a premier who has benefited from downloading on municipalities to the tune of $3 billion per year. This is also a premier who recently sent out his finance minister to lay the groundwork for his government to go into deficit &#8212; a financial position that is illegal for cities to be in &#8212; instead of cutting services, like he is implicitly demanding of\u00a0Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>So, Mr. Premier, I&#8217;d kindly ask you to take your nose out of our city&#8217;s budget process. If you want to influence it and ensure that our taxes are frozen, you&#8217;ll upload the download like you&#8217;ve promised repeatedly over the past decade. And until you&#8217;re ready to do that, how about you get to work on saving the thousands of manufacturing jobs lost across this province?<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/victor_to\/\"><em>vtgard<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Premier Dalton McGuinty thinks Toronto City Council should freeze taxes as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153symbolism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of government taking action in tough economic times. Isn&#8217;t that cute? This is a premier whose government has racked up multi-billion dollar surpluses while our city, in the middle of an economic boom, was struggling to make ends meet. 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