I promise you that on my own it will be known that I was trying hard to grin and bear it
March 18th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
Yesterday morning, a provincial Member of Parliament by the name of Bill Murdoch threw his idea to the public:
Let them form their own province.
He’s referring to the City of Toronto.
I have to admit that my thoughts are mixed on this one. As much as I’d like our city to have a higher amount of political control, at the same time it would be such… a mess, no? It would take a lot of political doohickying to get there. A lot of debate, a lot of amending. A lot of time.
I wanted to explain what I considered Ontario to be to Toronto in a metaphorical sense, but I found myself having trouble. Ontario is there and it helps us, but after the 1990s they let us do more of our own thing. Certain things, we couldn’t handle, such as a bloated downloading of welfare and TTC costs. Other things, we could, such as what was given by the City of Toronto act which allows for more financial flexibility.
It’s hard to say for sure if it’s a good idea or not, but at least it brings up an interesting concept to say the least. My only other concern: if Toronto became its own province, what would the capital of Ontario be?
