While Rob and Doug Ford ramp up their campaign to save subways that don’t yet exist, some Scarborough Liberals aren’t having any of it. The Toronto Sun spoke to a pair of provincial Liberal cabinet ministers who each acknowledge the importance of getting shovels in the ground for public transit in Toronto, while politely declining to get on board the mayor’s gravy train campaign. Sure, the views of a couple of cabinet ministers might not make much difference, given that the premier has already said he’ll respect the wishes of council, which formally endorsed an LRT-based transit plan earlier this month. But it’s nice to know that MPPs aren’t playing along with that well-worn strategy of using transit as a wedge between downtown and the burbs. Well, most of them aren’t, at least. Read the entire story [Toronto Sun] »
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