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Duly Quoted: George Smitherman

By Torontoist

“Yesterday we saw more of the same from City Hall. Instead of solutions, Toronto was handed the last in a series of Miller budgets, which barely fights off a deficit using short-term thinking and stop-gap measures.”
—Mayoral candidate George Smitherman, in a statement outlining his proposed alternatives for dealing with the Toronto’s finances, issued in response to yesterday’s release of the City’s draft 2010 operating budget.

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  • http://undefined JoeKuhl

    Smitherman is hear to make sure the Provincial government won’t be part of the solution. Looks like he’ll be a Harris/McGuinty apologist. Fiscal conservatives love to make urbanites suffer.

  • Darren

    This guy will say anything to get elected. Fiscal accountability is the current theme in the air, so he will say all these pretty words to come across as being fiscally accountable.
    Too bad he has already obtainted the union vote

  • http://undefined Peter K

    I have to admit until Adam Giambrone dropped out I was planning to vote strategically for whoever I thought could beat that incompetent windbag…not I have to rethink and my vote I parked with Smitherman will likely move elsewhere (at this point Rossi, but hopefully somewhere even better eventually).

  • http://undefined panko

    Like Furious George or not – he is right in this instance, unfortunately. The City has depleted its reserves and even though the budget is balanced, the future looks bleak.

  • http://undefined rek

    If the sitting or incumbent candidate is a lefty, or just left of however’s talking, ‘fiscal accountability’ is an inevitable campaign promise.

  • http://undefined Darren

    I agree, but I’m tired of hearing people say how “different” they are of Miller when their track record says otherwise

  • http://undefined atomeyes

    sounds a lot like what the Provincial government did under his watchful eye