Recent Toronto City Council Meetings

RE: Porter Airlines

No airline CEO, in their right mind, would offer to purchase a number of jet aircraft unless they had a guarantee that permission for their use at Porter Airlines, Toronto would be granted. So we must ask ourselves if Mayor Ford has independently assured Porter Airlines that he would guarantee their use.

Councillor Vaughan, during the Council Meeting, had two amendments passed that will initially inhibit  usage of jet aircraft at Billy Bishop Airport; however, once the jets are flying from the island, motion after motion will be brought before council to extend the runways and the usage of these jets. The study proposed by council into environmental problems, infringement on wildlife and water sport use and noise factors (being paid for by Porter Airlines) is a "slam dunk" to approve the use of jets and the extension of the runways. If you pay a consultant $250,000 you expect certain results. Porter Airlines will become a living cancer on the City of Toronto

RE: Metrolink

The City of Toronto employes transportation engineers, urban planners, tax specialists as staff. Staff should devise a formal, complete report into the future tax revenue needed and the condition of Toronto's public and road transport systems preparing a complete report on a future plan for the expansion of these systems. Metrolink to me is another government corporate company doomed to waste and failure. We pay these City of Toronto staff members but it seems we never actually use them to their full potential. Thus we are doubling our staff costs and duplicating existing professional expertise.

City Council is in no way capable to vote on the future needs of Toronto's transport system and the methods of collecting future tax revenues necessary to allow us to grow. Mayor Ford has a high school education. I suspect many of our councillors lack the expertise (education) to vote for or against future transportation needs for Toronto or new methods of taxation.