Warren Weeks

In 2011, the top rate in Ontario was 46%. Now just shy of 54%. Property taxes are up, as are one time land transfer taxes. A rising stock market generates outsized capital gains. Despite all of this revenue, and new programs such as Child Benefit, Dental care, and massive growth in transfers to seniors, what’s been accomplished? Food bank use has never been higher. You might wait 12 hours in a GTA emergency ward before being seen. Crime is up 30% in Toronto vs 2015. More hate on our streets than we’ve seen in decades. Billionaires are leaving, and taking their investment capital with them. Entrepreneurs are taking their ideas and moving to America. Fed/Prov debt is $350 billion higher than it was just three short years ago. Maybe, just maybe, outsized deficits, high taxes & growing government handouts aren’t a replacement for an economy that grows faster than society’s consumption of finite, mobile resources. Too many governments are ignoring what made all of our collective luxuries possible.

That you can show up at a Toronto emergency ward with an inexplicable gunshot wound and not be held by @TorontoPolice speaks to just how ineffective @MayorOliviaChow’s woke crime strategy is: Smith said officers did not arrest Richards while he was receiving treatment because they had not yet established reasonable grounds linking him to the home invasion. “We don’t just go off of suspicion,” she said, explaining that investigators had established that connection through forensic work with the Centre for Forensic Science and canvassing in the community.