If jogging to campaign events translates directly into votes, Premier Wynne is on her way to a landslide. Today she and supporters bounded into Ontario Place where Ms.Wynne made “an announcement” about the future as she saw it for the now-dormant waterfront park. He remarks were more of a quick flip through the gospel of good feelings. The Premier said she saw a 12-month-a-year music and entertainment venue and quite specifically “no residential development” at Ontario Place That seems okay but it prompted members of NoJetsTO to flood Twitter with questions as to why it was useful to save the waterfront from homes but not jet planes. Laura Cooper is a frequent No Jets voice who observed that “if you stand up for a waterfront for everyone and no condos, will you stand up for no jets on our waterfront?” She drew responses from Murray Kibler that “jets are a done deal”. Many may wonder whether this is sadly so by the barely heard mention of this issue in the municipal campaign. The jets issue is alive in Trinity Spadina (and possibly elsewhere) where NDP veteran Rosario Marchese, MPP for Trinity-Spadina, was tweeting about it today. In that little part of Toronto there are three (3!!) elections going on. Marchese is glad to give NDP federal byelection warrior Joe Cressy a hand by trying to embarrass Cressy’s opponent Adam Vaughan on the issue. A tweet today suggested that Vaughan had belatedly said, yes, he was against jets. But the candidates for mayor seem to be avoiding the issue. This is true even of Olivia Chow, from whom it seemed we might see a David Miller-like onslaught against this defiling of the Toronto Island park lands. So far, not so much.
