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Friday, June 27, 2008 --- 55 days ago http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/06/26/hall-monitor
 After refusing to respond to a conservative think tank report that proclaimed Toronto's decline and blamed city hall and taxes , Mayor David Miller fired back yesterday at former Ontario premier Mike Harris, one of the authors. “Former premier Mike Harris has had his impact on the city. We’ve seen it,” Mr. Miller said yesterday. “And I’ve spent the last five years working very strongly with Premier Dalton McGuinty to repair that damage." Mr. Miller often blames the downloading of services to the city from the province by Mr. Harris's Conservative government for Toronto's precarious financial situation. Toronto is still dealing with the legacy of assuming those new responsibilities without sufficient funding options, other than the politically unpopular move of boosting taxes or imposing user fees. “We’ve started to address the backlog that was given to us when it was downloaded… We addressed one today. We’re putting $75 million into Toronto Community Housing,” the mayor said, referring to money from the sale of Toronto Hydro Telecom that is being put into major repairs to city-owned housing, which badly needs a $300 million investment. A day earlier, Mr. Harris defended his record as Ontario premier and said looking backward is “unproductive.” “If you want to be mired in the past, listen to me argue about how Toronto got far more uploaded than was downloaded – $2 billion of taxes, property taxes, school and other things, but that’ ... |
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