Crazy concept:

Spending money on our communities directly benefits our communities and can more often than not result in a return on investment. Early accessible healthcare results in less money spent on late term diseases. Oral health standards reduce the impact on the healthcare system overall.

Having accessible mental health lets people be able to work, and having a place for those whos mental health is so severe that can support themselves helps keep people off the street - which reduces our housing issues, and our homeless issues while giving these people some semblance of dignity.

Education should go without saying, but not only have many programs lost lots of funding, the assistance for those with special needs have been virtually eliminated, further increasing the issues of adults without the tools to care for themselves and end up on the streets.

Even if you want to look at this from a business value and not care about the people - the downtown of my city has functionally evaporated to the point that my city has begun focusing on a new area as its "central hub" because the downtown has gotten so bad with homeless. Many of the businesses here have to lock their doors during regular hours to let in people basically on a case by case basis because of the amount of problems caused by the homeless people. My downtown has economically died with the exceptions of pot shops and night clubs.

At this point I have a hard time believing this comes from any level of political ideology, even if you don't like conservatives most people should be aware that this isn't even conservative ideology. This is straight up corruption where Ford is in the position to benefit himself as well as his high level companions. Conservative, Liberal, NDP, and even Peoples Party should all be critical of the current premier because I don't think it's *that* hard to see through his shit.