The TTC board has produced a report that recommends among other things that streetcars and buses should operate on the honour system. Get on and get off and we trust you to pay. But of course. The honour system works so well in the collection of municipal taxes and at the supermarket. Starbucks trusts us to pay for our coffee before we drink it and disappear. Then there’s the e-cigarette crusade. Look, sucking on a plastic stick and calling it smoking is stupid. So is smoking. But the bogeyman of e-cigarettes is just perfect for the self-important worry-warts at City Hall. What if we find out in 20 years that e-ciggies have turned us into aliens? Run for your life. But before you do, ponder the Mayor. He is saying today what 99 householders out of 100 say. We need fewer raccoons. A lot fewer. It is a classic example of how Rob Ford’s problem is not his politics, it’s his behaviour. Now you can run for your life.
