Joe Pants' record speaks for itself. It surely does.

This one is for residents of Toronto, and those that laugh at Torontonians from its suburbs. It is also for those who don't believe that micro-governmental ideological parameters should be strictly enforced when they diminish the quality of life in a city.

Deputy Mayor of Toronto, Joe Pantalone, has launched his bid to become Mayor of the City by saying "my record speaks for itself” and I agree with him. During the years of the Deputy's “Miller Time” we have seen spending like drunken sailors. They brought Toronto residents huge property tax increases, payments for a garbage collection service that becomes ever more reduced, intermittent and bureaucratic, and which was previously paid for in the property tax. they gave us Land Transfer Tax taking 2% of the proceeds of home sales in Toronto which was an act that stopped property sales and values dead in their tracks, and drove purchasers into the suburbs beyond the City thus resulting in a static taxable population. A tax on plastic bags in stores, a tax on billboards and many many more indirect taxes...

Traffic flow in the City was decimated, along with the destruction of a number of businesses to accommodate the building of a tram/streetcar right-of-way on a major artery. That project was returned over-budget and over-time, with some of the tram tracks being unusable because they were too crooked. The City’s planners have been instructed to create congestion in order to force the bad citizens of Toronto off the roads and onto public transport. However, the subway system removed parking for monthly subscribers who now have to pay twice the price of the monthly pass to park in the same spaces. There have also been fare increases on the subway at more than quadruple the rate of inflation. The City's councillors have been unable to reach deals with unions that are fair both to Toronto’s employees and to taxpayers, leading to a strike and no public service, for absolutely no apparent purpose.

Joe Pants has been Deputy Mayor as Toronto’s debt has more than doubled in a mere 6 years to $2.8 Billion.

During this period the City has accomplished…er… Nuit Blanche (an all night modern art festival), appointing the radical Dionne Brand as Toronto’s poet laureate, Pan-Am Games in 2015 (not the Olympics), Winterlicious (restaurants give cheap deals to fill spaces),…

Oh yes, Mr. Pantalone, your record does indeed speak for itself.