Create a crisis — then slash and burn

John Cartwright, Editorial Opinion, The Toronto Star:

The mayor’s objective is to shrink city government, cut its workforce and outsource as many jobs as possible.

The mayor and his supporters have made it clear that their objective is to dramatically shrink city government, cut its workforce and outsource as many jobs as possible. To justify that, they 'invented a crisis' with a deficit number that has been fictional since the day after its inception, along with deliberate cuts to city revenue.

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