With 1,100 people before the courts on firearm charges currently free on bail instead of sitting in jail, few are surprised when they end up involved in a shooting.
You read it right — 1,100 people on gun charges are currently free from custody on bail until their case makes it way to trial or is resolved.
Toronto – aspiring to become Canada’s version of a shithole Democrat Run City.
Wanna bet we’ll never see a demographic breakdown of the “1100?”
Only 29% per cent bothered to vote in the last election that saw John Tory swept to victory in a sort of reverse landslide of the couldn’t be bothered.
What explains this level of absenteeism?
Are people happy with the status quo?
Are rising taxes and deteriorating services simply accepted as normal?
“Putting in time until I can afford to get out” has become a common discussion.
What’s behind it? Are we so balkanized by diversity that a shared connection to the city is no longer possible?
Do you consider Toronto or some other GTA city home? Reading about recent events in Brampton brought to mind Chamberlain’s reference to the Czechoslovakia crisis as a “quarrel in a far away country, between people of whom we know nothing.”
Maybe as Trudeau might suggest Toronto is Canada’s first Post-City City, nothing more than a mass of transients, a settler pit stop to be exploited until greener pastures come along.
The specter of Leicester looms over Toronto & the GTA, it too was portrayed as a beacon of diversity.
