WislaHD
Superstar
Tory's support of a useless Scarborough subway and an eastern Gardiner rebuild are profoundly anti-urban, and both are right out of Ford's playbook. I agree Tory isn't a Fordite in the sense that he isn't an il-mannered bully; however, he wants to take Toronto exactly the same suburban place as Ford does.
Tory inherited the Scarborough subway. If anything, recent events point to him trying to get council to quietly cancel the thing!
I am heavily on the pro-removal side, but I don't think there is any value in calling supporters of the 'maintain' option as "anti-urban". If there is one thing that I noticed in this debate is that even people that are pro-city building on this forum have fallen in support of the maintain option. As for John Tory himself, it seems his political interests lie in wanting to unlock the Unilever site rather than being a champion of the "war against cars".
Sorry but I just find polarizing unsubstantiated claims unproductive to social/political discourse. Tory does deserve criticism for putting political interests above the evidence-based decision-making he asserted his mayoralty would be, but not for being a 'Ford-Lite' as Chow-supporters love to suggest.