Toronto City Hall office budget blues
Dear Editor:
Re: Zen Ruryk’s story Office budget backlash, May 25, city council
voted to have the city’s auditor general and integrity commissioner
investigate two councillors for not spending enough taxpayer money.
If they think that not spending enough is this serious of an issue
that so much time has been spent debating and voting on it at the
expense of many other issues, why stop there? Why not have a full
judicial inquiry to investigate all cases of inadequate spending of
taxpayers money by both politicians and any city staff who may be
guilty of this aggregious activity?
The judicial inquiry the city did on the MFP scandal cost $19
million. Hopefully a full inquiry into the lack of enough spending at
City Hall will cost at least this much and help to remedy the
problems with insufficient spending.
Heck, why stop there? The city should create a whole department to
ensure that every politician and employee are all doing their part to
make sure they are spending the maximums they can.
Now I know there are naysayers out there saying there is already a
department doing this called the mayor’s office but the Mayor has
many other things to worry about. After this much City Hall debate on
insufficient spending, obviously the city needs a whole department
dedicated to routing out these evildoers who aren’t spending enough.
Obviously the public wants this underspending cut in the bud before
it becomes a trend, since a majority of our city representatives
clearly see it as a very dangerous precedent.
Michael Edwards
Toronto
