Christopher Hume reflects on Hurricane Hazel and how deeply she shaped the community she led for 36 years. HumeChristopher | Ontario Mississauga mayor HazelMcCallion
, images of “cows and horses grazing” have acquired new meaning. But for McCallion’s generation, undeveloped land was empty space waiting to be filled. Just weeks before her death, she was very publicly supporting Ford’s ruinous Greenbelt schemes, proof, if any were needed, that Her Worship never changed her spots.
“Transit is our major priority at this point,” she said in an interview one year before she retired. “Because of all the economic development we have, it’s very important that we have transit to get people to and from work…. Even in Toronto they don’t have an adequate transit system for the growth that has occurred. If they don’t have an adequate [transit system], you can imagine that we don’t have an adequate transit system.
As we all know only too well, hindsight is 20/20. McCallion’s Mississauga fell into the time-honoured trap. The city’s financial woes are the usual ones. To make matters worse, the cost of much-needed transit, like so much civic infrastructure, has soared in recent years. It’s no surprise that the overwhelming question for McCallion’s successor, Bonnie Crombie, is whether Mississauga can afford to become the city it so wants to be.For Mississauga, the price of McCallion’s longevity was steep.
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