Before council started, Mayor John Tory defended his position that the city should continue talks even though Ontario officials signalled Queen’s Park is intent on tearing up council’s transit plan. “I also know that to get transit built, we must work together with the other governments ... we simply cannot build the transit alone. “Protests and demonstrations do not build transit. At Queen’s Park, Premier Doug Ford repeated the controversial transit mantra of his late brother, former Toronto mayor Rob Ford. “We’re going to build, build, build subways, subways, subways around the GTA and around Toronto,” the premier thundered in the legislature.
Source: thestar March 27, 2019 14:03 UTC