None of the city’s public meetings on the 2011 budget will be held downtown

Hey, remember how the vote in the last mayoral election revealed that the city’s largely split along geographic lines, with the downtown core overwhelmingly opposing our new mayor and the suburbs overwhelmingly supporting him?

Well, as Jonathan Goldsbie just pointed out in a post on Spacing, none of the city’s upcoming public meetings on the 2011 budget will be held anywhere close to downtown.

As you can see, the “Toronto and East York District” meeting will be held on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 at 6:00 PM at the East York Civic Centre. Sure, it’s not a problem for those of us who happen to live nearby, but for the vast majority of people who didn’t vote for Ford and might not see eye to eye with him on the budget, it’s going to be quite a trek.

“Ford’s latest plot to shut out downtowners,” as Goldsbie rightly put it, “is so devious that you almost have to respect the balls.”

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One Response to “None of the city’s public meetings on the 2011 budget will be held downtown”

  1. Peter Lynn says:
    December 17, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    I don’t know that I’d call the East York Civic Centre the heart of Ford country, though. It’s sandwiched between Wards 29 and 31, which both voted anyone-but-Ford in the election (he did win a plurality in the latter, but was bested by Smitherman in the former). In 29, you’ve got Mary Fragedakis, Jack Layton’s anointed candidate; in 31, you’ve got Janet Davis, one of the so-called left-wing pinkos who donned pink garb in protest of Don Cherry’s speech.

    Besides, the venue isn’t inappropriate, given its status as a former headquarters for municipal politics, and it’s close enough for each us to wander over and heckle.