“Nov. 2, 2006 was a quintessential Toronto day-exposing our mayor as a toothless, ineffective leader and our city as a powerless wimp.”
Increasingly frustrated Toronto Star columnist Royson James bemoans the failure of “Toronto the rudderless” to mount a bid for Expo 2015.
It’s not so much that we didn’t bid for a World’s Fair, which some commentators see as an outdated exhibition anyway. It’s that the lack of maturity, communication, accountability, and energy demonstrated by all levels of government towards this project mirrors how our politicians go about most things these days. With lacklustre leaders like Harper and Miller as examples, it’s no wonder that voters and motivated young people are discouraged from expending their own energies in the political process.
