Seems like there’s three choices.
1) Have a public inquiry into the intricacies of a late 1990s computer deal gone sour, and invite the former budget chief to explain how he wound up on an airplane/with a bunch of money on his American Express card/a grandmother who kept bags of money in her apartment; then run him for mayor and see
what happens…
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2) Isolate him from the new mayor and the inner circles of power for exactly one term, re-elect him, isolate him some more, then get him acclaimed to run in his home riding, for the party that said mayor’s last serious challenger is
leading, and see how it goes;
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3) Put him in charge of an under-funded, barely sustainable
local institution created by a long-gone higher order of government (that is not the City of Toronto’s operating and capital budget), and see if anything happens.
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It’s been quiet at The Art of the Improbable lately, and we apologize. Expect more high-end commentary like this more frequently in the coming days.
