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Yonge-Dundas Square renaming proves council isn’t listening
Give Toronto city council credit for its stunning honesty.
Elected officials often at least pretend to be listening to the people and doing what is best for the community. When change was in the wind, they would “listen to the people” and “meet with stakeholders” and hire an outrageously compensated consultant or three to tell them what they wanted to hear. Then they would go ahead and do what they wanted to do in the first place.
An exception is Premier Doug Ford.
Ford has racked up a list of ideas and projects started and reversed. He has been criticized for that, but whether you like it or you don’t, he is listening to the people.
In Toronto, under Mayor Olivia Chow, council members have decided that ramming things down an unwilling public’s throat is a better way to go.
