Whoaccio
Senior Member
I would point out that liberalism is about more than being tolerant of sexual preference. That's definitely part of it, but ranking how liberal a city is based around homosexual tolerance isn't really useful. You can't even sell street food here without going through some kind of Kafka-esque bureaucratic nightmare worthy of East Germany, so how liberal are we at the end of the day? I remember watching a 20/20 segment on Hong Kong where John Stossel actually set up a business selling 20/20 hats in under a day. That's liberalism. In Toronto you would probably get shutdown by some confluence of NIMBYistic neighborhood associations claiming your restaurant is an affront to moral decency or one of the dozens of bureaucrats who exist to enforce arbitrary standards. The entire strain of Toronto benevolent "we are smarter than you" bureaucracy that has banned everything from Sunday shopping to lane-way housing and private liquor sales is wholly illiberal.