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politics

Duly Quoted: Doug Ford

By Hamutal Dotan

“I believe we need some business folks involved in the TTC. As far as I am concerned the TTC needs a complete enema.”

—The ever-colourful Doug Ford (Ward 2, Etobicoke North) to the Globe and Mail, about his hope to change the composition of the TTC board soon, and add citizen representatives. Ford has been tussling publicly with current TTC Chair Karen Stintz lately, over the future of transit expansion plans.

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  • Anonymous

    Just as the Mayors Ford start to lose their grip on transit plans for the city… odd timing, that.

  • Anonymous

    We can start by removing Rob Ford’s lapdogs from the commission.

  • Anonymous

    If the TTC was run like a business, it wouldn’t waste $2 billion needlessly buring the Eglinton LRT line.

    • Anonymous

      You’re right; they wouldn’t build the Eglinton line at all, then they’d shutter the Sheppard, raise fares to $4, replace seats with vending machines…

  • Anonymous

    The TTC already has “citizen representatives”. They’re called “councillors”, and are democratically elected by the citizens of Toronto to represent them.
    Apointed board members aren’t “citizen representatives”.

  • Anonymous

    I was relatively pleased when Karen Stintz was appointed TTC chair, since even though i rarely agree with her political “flavour”, i have developed a respect for her thorough research, and ability to think, unlike many of the ‘players’ in this current “over/under” drama. And now that she has declared herself as having a valid opinion, rather than a mechanical rubber stamp arm (e.g. Mamolitti – owhni), time has come for all the other ‘sentient’ councillors to pull strongly in behind her lead and get something done for the people that City government has almost forgotten.

  • Anonymous

    Great idea! Anyone with a semblance of business savvy will tell the Ford Bros they are full of it. Unless of course they are appointed BY the Ford Bros.

  • Anonymous

    Doug Ford doesn’t need a lobotomy…

  • Ward18

    Inheriting a sticker factory doesn’t make you a business genius, Dougie.

  • http://drdawgsblawg.ca Dr. Dawg

    Doug Ford: enema of the people.

  • http://piorkowski.ca qviri

    Maybe Del Grande would be interested? I hear he’s looking for a new challenge.

  • Dave Kates

    What I find most interesting about all this is the fact that Karen Stintz actually spoke with Doug Ford before she made her public comments last week. She claims he gave her the impression of a willingness to compromise. So if that’s true, it means she went public with a proposal to change course and winds up getting hung out to dry by the Ford bros and their sycophants at the TTC board. That’s a startling betrayal, methinks.

    How’s that for sickening?

    • Eric S. Smith

      I wonder how many “mushy middle” Ford supporters who think that they have an understanding with the brothers will start to doubt their sincerity. Short term thinking from the Fords, as ever, and if their authoritarian mindset holds, they’ll be lashing out more and more as their support fades.

      —WE WANT CHOCOLATE CAKE
      —Good news, I have a tray of chocolate brownies…
      —I SAID CAKE YOU ARE DEAD TO US

      • Dave Kates

        What were they thinking when they railroaded Stintz? More to the point, why hasn’t it been as widely publicized that Stintz spoke with Doug Ford first? I’d think the betrayal would be the central part of the story, no? I sincerely hope other councillors will take note. If they think it’s possible to align themselves with the Ford brothers part of the time, they’re sorely mistaken. It’s all or nothing.

        And soon, hopefully, they’ll wind up with nothing: outvoted in council and left to twist in the wind for 3 years.