Until this week, Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby, a fiscal conservative from Mayor Rob Ford’s home base of Etobicoke, was a reliable Ford ally. No longer.
At council’s special meeting on service cuts, Lindsay Luby criticized Ford for falsely raising the spectre of a 35 per cent tax hike. She said she had not been given enough information to approve cuts.
She authored a surprise proposal to forbid the privatization of the Toronto Parking Authority. And she voted with council’s left-leaning faction on numerous tight votes, voting against Ford 25 times in all — after voting with him on every major issue of his mayoral term before Tuesday.
Lindsay Luby, a councillor since 1985, has never been close with Ford. He unsuccessfully ran against her in 1997, famously called her a “waste of skin” during a debate about a pothole in 2005, and backed her challenger in the 2010 election.
My My, Robbie Ford has been classy that long?
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