Re: $75M from Wi-Fi sale to be used for public housing, Toronto Star, Jun 14, 2008 http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/443356

Andrew Clement

The Toronto Star’s story about the sale of Toronto Hydro Telecom (THT), by taking its cue from Mayor Miller’s spin about community housing, misses several key points. While remedying the deplorable state of Toronto’s public housing is worthy of support, the unseemly haste to divvy up the spoils obscures the missed golden opportunity that holding on to THT would represent. Part of the problem can rightly be laid at the feet of the former Tory government that both down-loaded housing to the City without adequate financing and hobbled it from properly taking advantage of its telecom asset — i.e. more on-going damage the Harris government is still wreaking on Ontario’s public institutions. Continue reading →