{"id":4247,"date":"2009-05-08T19:59:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/05\/08\/thanking-mcguinty-as-only-toronto-can\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:06:59","slug":"thanking-mcguinty-as-only-toronto-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/05\/08\/thanking-mcguinty-as-only-toronto-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanking McGuinty as only Toronto can"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“We’re breaking new ground for Transit City thanks to the recent investment from Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Ontario Government’s Move2020 initaitive.”
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As my hastily snapped and poorly framed camera phone picture of the advertisement above shows, the TTC and City of Toronto have done for Dalton McGuinty what he could not do for himself: give the premier personal credit, in the form of an advertisement, for funding many of Toronto’s Transit City lines.<\/p>\n

Back when McGuinty was leader of the Official Opposition at Queen’s Park, he relentlessly attacked then-premier Mike Harris for producing blatantly partisan ads with taxpayer money. During the 2003 election that brought the Liberals to power, McGuinty vowed that he would legislate an end to using the public purse for shameless self-promotion.<\/p>\n

To his credit, that was one of the election promises McGuinty actually kept. Introduced in 2004, the Government Advertising Act bans<\/a> government funded advertisements with the “name, voice or image of a member of the Executive Council (Cabinet) or a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario unless the primary target audience is outside Ontario.”<\/p>\n

Now I’m all for saying thank you — and that’s exactly what Mayor David Miller did on behalf of Toronto at the April 1, 2009 funding announcement (and on many occasions since). But quite clearly, the above advertisement would contravene the Act if the provincial government had paid for it. So why are the City and TTC going out of their way to help McGuinty skirt his own law?<\/p>\n

Plus, now that McGuinty is playing games<\/a> with Toronto’s streetcar purchase, I’ve got another message I want the city to send his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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