Shocker: Toronto Gets it Wrong, Told to Fuck Off

Far be it from me to ever side with the moronic bullies of Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party, but I had to giggle when Tory Transport Ministrix John Baird called out my soon-to-be-ex-city’s ineptitude in applying for part of a $4 billion federal infrastructure fund:

Toronto’s only application for money under the federal government’s $4 billion infrastructure stimulus fund was met with a profane dismissal by Transport Minister John Baird yesterday.

In an unguarded moment, Baird told aides Toronto stood alone in not meeting the technical criteria for federal cash, yet was complaining about Ottawa dragging its feet.

“Twenty-seven hundred people got it right. They didn’t. That is not a partnership and they’re bitching at us,” he said.

“They should f— off.”

I guess no one’ll be buying Baird a drink at Woody’s any time soon.

I love the photo which The Star ran to accompany the article, too:

John Baird in The Star

I have a feeling the image above will be one of my most enduring memories of Toronto, how it’s its own worst enemy and how the rest of the country treats it, for reasons far too obvious to detail at this juncture.