Today's tonics: Mark Carney's Liberals dragging their feet protecting Toronto's waterfront from jet-fuelled destruction & taking progressive Canadians for granted...

 

 

Today's tonics / recommended reads are two opinion pieces in the Toronto Star (by opinion writers who, unlike yellow journalist Martin Regg Cohn, still actually use facts and evidence to underpin their arguments). 

First, Shawn Micallef's "Toronto’s Liberal MPs have a duty to defend the city’s stake in the future of Billy Bishop airport. So why aren’t they?"  

Micallef makes clear the gutless neutrality on display so far from Toronto Liberal MPs who can't seem to properly represent their residents' major concerns about potential jets taking over Toronto's skies and destroying the livability of Toronto's downtown core just to allow a handful of rich jet setters increased choice on which expensive flight they'll be taking next.  

Furthermore, the federally-regulated Toronto Port Authority is already drafting up plans to extend the island airport's runway by one kilometre into the water, with plans to see it shoot past Doug Ford's corrupt Therme Spa, which is also being constructed without concern for environmental impact.   

This would be exactly what visitors to the Therme Spa are looking for: a watery refuge pounded by constant jet engine noise and gas pollution, where you wonder every five minutes if that jet is going to crash straight into you and potentially all the concert goers at the nearby LiveNation re-designed concert venue.  As if people downtown want more noise, not less.  

On the other end of the waterfront, newly-finished Biidaasige Park and plans to expand housing on the re-designed Portlands will also be ruined when the jet flight path destroys all peace and housing demand, further trashing what might've been a great evolution of Toronto's waterfront.   

Yes, everything Doug Ford touches turns to shit, as we know.  Look at Ontario today.  It seems Ontarians are finally coming out of their coma when it comes to how one fixes their province: you defeat mediocre jokers who are all-talk and never met a good plan they weren't willing to destroy.  

SIGN THE PETITION HERE: You can take action by signing No Jets TO's petition here. 

Mark Carney's Liberals are indeed taking progressive voters for granted, as Althia Raj astutely describes in this other piece today, "Mark Carney has forgotten who helped get him elected."

Dear Mark, it's time to put aside those centrist-do-nothing, just be a Conservative instincts you seem to have and remember the COALITION that elected you.  

If you continue to govern like Brian Mulroney, you are playing with fire, as Pierre Poilievre is still waiting around for you to fail, and progressive voters are figuring out they're no better off with you in power.  

It's time to reject Doug Ford's insane jets plan for Toronto, and to find better ways to sustain the programs Canadians need and the environmental assessments that are essential to sustained life in this country (which are also under major threat by Carney's cost-cutting, tax-cutting inclinations.)