“I expect to see the Army called in at any moment,” he wrote on Twitter. Minister of Transportation: I saw on CTV just the extent of the snow that Toronto had received in five or six days. When the army arrived in Toronto a year later and the climactic barrage of snow Lastman had feared failed to materialize, conditions were ripe for people to start making jokes. On this day in 1999 Mel Lastman called in the army to help clear snow in Toronto https://t.co/y0oie1FuT0 pic.twitter.com/S0Pp5T1qiB — CityNews Toronto (@CityNews) January 14, 2018 Despite the quips and criticism, the impulse to rag on Toronto wasn’t universal. You get 30 cm in snow in Toronto three times, or 40, 50, 60 cm of snow in Toronto over a week, that’s going to shut this city down.

Source: National Post January 10, 2019 13:26 UTC