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Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister, and Dalton Mc-Guinty, the Ontario Premier, pledged nearly a billion dollars for a new light rail line in Scarborough yesterday, but their gala announcement at a streetcar maintenance shop was a telling statement about Toronto`s relationship with Ottawa and the Queen`s Park.
The smiling Prime Minister and Premier stepped off a Toronto Transit Commission streetcar almost an hour behind schedule and without Mayor David Miller, who was relegated to the audience.
And Mr. McGuinty couldn`t resist ribbing the Toronto Mayor for requesting funding for a fleet of streetcars to replace the ageing red rockets on top of investments in new transit lines -- such as Sheppard East, for which $950-million was pledged yesterday.
Read the full article here.
The smiling Prime Minister and Premier stepped off a Toronto Transit Commission streetcar almost an hour behind schedule and without Mayor David Miller, who was relegated to the audience.
And Mr. McGuinty couldn`t resist ribbing the Toronto Mayor for requesting funding for a fleet of streetcars to replace the ageing red rockets on top of investments in new transit lines -- such as Sheppard East, for which $950-million was pledged yesterday.
Read the full article here.