What Do Torontonians Really Want Their City To Be Edward Keenan Analysis

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Edward Keenan discusses in his article, “What do Torontonians really want their city to be?”, that the people and the politicians of Toronto want to have a great city, but they do not have the funding or the budgeting in place to make the plans transpire. Mr. Keenan quoted Toronto’s city manager, Peter Wallace as saying, “areas of really big failure”, in spite of the successes that have been seen in the city. In Mr. Keenan’s words, this is in relation to the “congestion and transit, housing, and child poverty” issues. In the article Mr. Keenan describes how Peter Wallace showed slides of the steady decline of revenue and told how the politicians kept voting to decrease it. Mr. Wallace went on to say that the government has really great

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