Oh, yeah, Hazel sucks. That's why three quarters of a million people -- intelligent, educated, urban folks just like you -- have re-elected her over and over and over again since before you were born or not very long afterwards.
Look. We're talking about someone who actually has insight and management ability, which is why Mississauga grew from a bunch of farming communities into one of the largest cities in Canada in a generation without larding on a crippling debt, and has amelioration plans in place for the ongoing upkeep of existing infrastructure into the future without incurring a debt even now that the heady days of development in the city are largely over. We're talking about someone with a knack for picking smart people to build a city that you can actually get around in, which is why hundreds of corporate headquarters and light industrial facilities have flocked there. That's EXACTLY the kind of person the GTA needs to keep this place from turning into a lunatic asylum of competing interests, retrograde rules, and overly-parochial planning models that see roads in one community dead-end at the border of another and people double-fared for daring to cross a municipal border that exists only in someone's head.
The mayors we've had in Toronto since Crombie have been people dedicated to keeping it Mayberry in 1950 forever -- but unfortunately, the city has moved on far beyond that. But the people downtown keep voting for them en masse so that's what we get. We need people who actually understand there's life beyond the Don and north of Bloor Street, and we need them NOW.
Toronto doesn't end at Steeles Avenue, except on paper. We need to start facing the reality of what Toronto REALLY is.