Streetcar Line: Tough Crowd

Glove Treatment Dept: It was sentiment enough to sour any room, but there was irony in the heckling of these top two, given that neither supported the TTC right-of-way at city council. Meanwhile, the only candidate who did Councillor Joe Pantalone, already a deputy mayor when the project passed in 2004 appeared to get kid-glove treatment at Oakwood, maybe because his campaign never really took off. What was the point?, according to The Star. I ll tell you, fiascoes like St. Clair won t happen on my watch, Ford thundered from the podium in the gym at Oakwood Collegiate, to robust applause. What he neglected to mention was that city hall minutes show he didn t actually vote on the St. Clair motion when it passed, 36-7, with no abstentions and it was a tough crowd at a recent debate at Oakwood Collegiate, with insults flying furiously at mayoral frontrunners, Rob Ford and George Smitherman. Folks around here are understandably raw over the havoc wreaked on their neighbourhood during five years of construction for the dedicated St. Clair W. streetcar line. People kept referring to our dying St. Clair. When the right-of-way vote was taken on Oct. 29, 2004, Smitherman wasn t even at city hall. He was the MPP for Toronto Centre-Rosedale and Liberal health minister by then, his municipal experience limited to working for Barbara Hall as chief of staff while she was mayor, and campaign manager. Etobicoke North councillor Ford was already four years into a decade of service at city hall. As reported in the news.
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