Has anyone seen the former city of "Toronto"? Anyone? Anyone at all?

 I've been growing more nostalgic for it with greater frequency. Having been born there, worked and spent a very sizable portion of my life in GTA, I can remember a time when Toronto actually had testicular fortitude, and a sturdy backbone. When the individuals running it weren't politically-correct, self-serving cowards. And as such, looked out for the whole of its population. Not select special interest groups, who assuredly vote them back into power. Just for bequeathing to them privileges the average citizen such as myself would never receive in the first place.

 I can remember a time when the money I invested in my hometown actually WENT to bettering my hometown. It was obvious all around me. The streets were clean. Roads were well-managed. Police had a vested interest in performing their duties, because they were able to look around them and see the fruits of their labors. Order was maintained. I felt extremely safe anywhere I went, and at any time of day or night. Quality of life was much better. Nobody harassed you.

 However. There comes a point in time, where you can no longer tolerate someone essentially, "pissing in your face, and telling you it's raining.". I reached this point a while back. City roads and sidewalks are crumbling around us. Public transit is quickly becoming filthy and unaccommodating. Even to its downtown residents. Never mind visitors. It's violent. Especially the "Entertainment District". City Hall is ethically bankrupt. Hundreds of millions of dollars which are strongarmed from us in tax hikes, and in an assortment of other nefarious means by Toronto City Hall, are wasted every year on unfinished and unnecessary construction and/or "green" projects. And I never thought I'd live to say this: Based on the amount of times they're in the news for one assorted crime after another, I'm more afraid of the current police force, than petty criminals. Again. Never imagined I'd ever feel that way, but I do. I loathe such, because I'm fully aware if borders on prejudice. My only consolation being, I didn't get that way on my own.

 

 As if this wasn't horrible enough, now Mayor Miller is essentially allowing our hospitals and city roads to be hikacked at will. Offering no resistance whatsoever. Is this "Canada" or "Somalia"? From a point of sheer lawlessness, I honestly can't tell anymore.

 Curiously. I wonder if myself, and a few other hundred Caucasian motorcycle riders were to hijack a section of Toronto and protest a legitimate Canadian concern that affects ALL its population, how many paddy wagons would be shipped their in a nanosecond? How many cannisters of pepper spray would we be fed? How many batons would we be digging out of our mouths, along with our remaining teeth? I'm betting all the food drives and charity runs bikers do, wouldn't save us from a beating. Yet the Tamil protesters who ARE selfishly motivated and violent, as repeatedly proven over the last few days, are obviously getting a "free pass". Call me jaded. But do you think "race" and "politics" may have something to do with it?

 If the "Old Toronto" actually rears its head, someone please have it call me. I'd be nice to actually see it again sometime. Pardon me if I just won't hold my breath waiting.