TOareaFan
Superstar
They made the promise and they don't care.
Who is "they" that made this promise and doesn't care? Certainly not municipal politicians cause it is not their promise to make. During my years here successive people have made it to Queen's Park on the back of this issue and failed to delver. Likely the most hated guy in this town is Dalton McGuinty....he who was happy to be there on the groundbreaking of Brampton Civic and promising that once it opened there would be a very temporary closing of PMH while it was renovated....then that same guy announcing that the closure would be longer...then it was being demolished but work would start right away....then it would be delayed a bit but would be under construction in 2013 and open in 2015....still an empty pit and now not going to be a hospital at all.
Brampton has sent liberal MPP's to office since the end of the Davis era.
Except when they didn't .....looking at current MPPs......Linda Jeffrey (LIB) replaced Joe Spina (PC)......Kyle Seeback (PC) replaced Andrew Kania (LIB)...Jagmeet Singh (NDP) replaced Kuldip Kular (LiB).
At current we are the poster child for the current minority government.
They don't have anything to show for it while Burlington, Vaughan, Rich Hill, Markham, Whitby, Ajax, Milton have been leading the GTA in growth.
Well it really depends on how you measure growth doesn't it....numbers or percentage....Milton is growing faster on a percentage basis but that is based on a very small denominator.
Between the 2006 and 2011 census......Brampton grew by 90,105....Milton grew by 30,423 (in fact, Brampton's growth during that period was actually more people than the new population of Milton after its growth).......Burlington (11,300), Vaughan (49,500) Makham (39,953) Whitby (10,838) Ajax (18,433) are all municipalities that are growing slower than Brampton in terms of % and amount (and in some cases substantially slower in both areas).
Your local politicians have to do better, but if there is apathy among the populace? Then there's nothing you can do.
Aside from you and I likely having a fundamentally different view on how a Provincial government should operate (I don't think a government should ignore issues in a community unless there is a particularly strong advocate government in that place....(IMO....if you are seeing growth, and in fact mandating that growth, you have a moral responsibility to deal with the issues of growth)...I also find it very difficult to believe the notion that in the last 40+ years we have been electing 100% silent idiots
I can assure you there is no apathy amongst the populace....in fact if I worry about anything it is that the strains these infrastructure shortfalls (and the lack of evidence that there is any will to solve them at QP) are causing may actually cause some civil unrest....you can already sense a fair bit of tension amongst the races...something I did not experience growing up here and I don't think it is anything other than people "blaming the newcomers" because all these growth related issues are "caused by the growth of town and arrival of newcomers" (paraphrasing the sentiment not expressing my own opinion).