The CBC’s headline reads, “Miller defends Toronto’s cleanliness on CNN”, implying some degree of success in defending his city’s reputation after helping cause and maintain the current strike by city workers. But the fist sentence in the article is a little more accurate: “Mayor David Miller tried to defend his city’s reputation as ‘Toronto the Clean’ on Thursday”.
He went on with the strident declaration, with nary a smirk, “Despite the fact we have 30,000 people on strike, the city is coping very, very well.” He made no mention of the fact that Canada Day festivities and countless others have had to be canceled as a result of his strike.
It naturally reminds me of the spot-on semblance to Iraqi “information minister” Baghdad Bob’s news conference claiming the Americans were “nowhere near Baghdad”, even as we saw them right over his left shoulder rounding up Sadam’s surrendering “Republican Guards”.
I liked this line in the current story: “As he spoke, video footage showed garbage bags piled in Toronto parks and on city streets.”
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