Comment 79513

By ViennaCafe (registered) | Posted July 17, 2012 at 12:07:59

"The article frames this as a left/right divide between progressive urban councillors and conservative suburban councillors, but that misses the point."

Unfortunately, ALL issues are, today, framed as a left/right divide. The purpose of doing so is to force people to pick a side on an issue not in terms of evidence or the most compelling arguments but along partisan, bordering on sectarian, political lines.

As Jason says, this isn't America, but our political leadership and commentators have adopted American style discourse, or, more correctly, American style obstacles to meaningful discourse. So, today, in Canada, science is political as we have just witnessed in Ottawa scientists in lab coats taking to the streets as research funding and facilities are axed for a political agenda.

In Toronto Holyday is an ally of Ford, an anti-city big city mayor, who is engaged in an ideological war against the city from bicycles to streetcars to libraries to development and so much more.

We live in interesting times.

Comment edited by ViennaCafe on 2012-07-17 12:09:42

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