Immigration: Great White Hope

Campaign Platform Dept: But closing the gates, tossing away the welcome mat, and junking the Diversity Our Strength civic motto? “We can’t even deal with the 2.5-million people in this city,” Mr. Ford said in the TV debate that first popularized his anti-outsider views. “I think it’s more important that we take care of the people now before we start bringing in more.”, according to Globe And Mail. But Mr. Ford’s followers should be very careful what they wish for: However unworkable the city seems to them now, a city without newcomers will face a much more desperate future. We’re not talking slow-moving commutes, rude TTC employees and the occasional garbage strike – this Tea Party resistance movement is a recipe for urban extinction, and not just because there’ll be nobody around to serve the tea and the polls show Etobicoke’s Great White Hope solidifying his lead, and his appeal to disenchanted voters increasingly tempts other mayoral candidates to badmouth the Milleresque status quo. Heck, maybe we’re all prepared to channel our inner Mr. Grumpy if simple resentment will bring us a low-cost city that actually works. As part of the campaign platform for a fiscally frugal candidate, this reluctance to grow sounds persuasive. Our roads are clogged enough already. More people can only make them worse. Or, we don’t have enough tax dollars to deal with public housing as it is. So where will we find the money to build more towers when all those impoverished foreigners get off the boat? As reported in the news.
@t garbage strike, resistance movement