There Will Be Blood Problems

I'm reminded of this paragraph from something I wrote for Eye last year:

"The TTC and the city have exactly zero ability to enforce traffic restrictions" due to legislation "going back over 100 years," responded Chair Adam Giambrone, his annoyance at the status quo bubbling up. "Even a unanimous vote of Council cannot compel police to do anything. I don't have power over health services or national defense, either.... Sometimes the police aren't too pleased when we push [them], but too bad." In his frustration over his legislated impotence, Giambrone — who is usually characterized by his obsessive diplomacy, lest he ever provide a soundbite that could be used against him when seeking higher office — unleashed a fire, a passion, an honesty that he had previously kept muffled in public. Joe Clark and I, somewhat in awe, agreed it was the first time we'd "heard him speak like a human." He should trust himself more, and trust that people are more inspired by an Adam Vaughan than a Sandra Bussin.