Rob Ford: Toronto City Council

Gary Webster Dept: Ford s followers tossed Webster out regardless of having to pay him a hefty severance package and despite an appeal from McGuinty calling for stability and a clear direction from the city on spending an $8.4 billion transit investment from the province. We re running out of patience, McGuinty said, according to The Star. A solid majority of Toronto city council has voted against his plan. A host of credible transit analysts not just Webster have found Ford s vision wanting. And Ford has refused to publicly, and fully, accept that building a Sheppard subway will require more money from residents, either in the form of road tolls, soaring parking fees, or some other tax. That isn t the opinion of an anti-subway pinko ; it s from Ford s hand-picked transit adviser, Gordon Chong and even Premier Dalton McGuinty s public exasperation with transit antics at Toronto city hall has failed to blunt Mayor Rob Ford s determination to make things worse. As expected, his minions on the Toronto Transit Commission voted Tuesday to fire chief general manager Gary Webster. They did so less than two weeks after he had the nerve to express a professional opinion at odds with Ford s reckless demand for more subways a transit option that the city can t afford and doesn t need. None of that matters to Ford. With the confidence of a sleepwalker, utterly unaware of surrounding reality, the mayor blithely insists Toronto must build subways. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.