Finally, council voted … unanimously … that they will have to study the jets issue further, before any decision can be made about airport expansion and jets. Porter’s Deluce takes this to mean that he still has a chance. Highly unlikely.
No decision will be made by this council. A new council, after the October election, will have a different make up. Only if Toronto chooses to reelect Rob Ford and a council to match will Deluce get his jets. I can’t believe Toronto will make the Rob Ford mistake twice.
Month: April 2014
In the bowels of City Hall
The Ford Brothers were pretty much missing all morning, although Doug wandered in briefly. Mayor RoFo appeared for a few minutes after 2:00, but he did not stay long. Nothing much has happened regarding the Billy Bishop Airport … just a bit of political jockeying and querying of staff about reports.
Danica and I have been here since the meeting started at 9:30 this morning. Logged into city hall wifi, I can blog from my seat in the gallery. Porter employees are back in the audience, this time in yellow tee shirts. I think to myself, “Even their costumes are loud”. Still, the Porter crowd appears to be greatly outnumbered by No Jets people.
There’s no certainty that council will stop Porter’s plans today. It may turn out to be an anticlimactic duck and dodge meeting. It depends on the motions put forward for a vote. Council could simply vote to “receive” the most recent staff report, but to do nothing more. That would kick the debate down the road, postponing any real deliberation.
Back home again
We left at 3:15 to beat the rush hour home. At the rate things were proceeding (I would say glacial, except with global warming, glaciers are moving faster), the voting might not happen until tomorrow, or even Thursday.
Comic relief was provided by a heckler who was unable to contain himself during a particularly stupid dissertation by Councillor Mammoliti. Calling out “Sit down, sir. You are an idiot,” got the guy thrown out. He was right about Mammoliti, but wrong to shout out the obvious. The snooze fest resumed.
