Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:55:44 -0400
To: <rebeccacampbell@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Save the Matador: Join us tomorrow (TODAY - TUESDAY) at 4 PM at
City Hall in Meeting Room B for the Board meeting of the Toronto Parking
Authority
Dear friends,
We have all read about the City's plan to expropriate the famed Matador club
and turn it into a parking lot.
I don't want to talk about the failings of Toronto's planning department,
nor do I wish to talk about how this City Council has failed to seize
opportunities to improve our city. I don't want to even talk about the
Matador. I want to talk about Ann Dunn, the owner of the Matador, and how
this city has singled her out and bullied her in order to steal her life's
work. All in our name, and all for the sake of a parking lot.
I want to talk about how Ann had to find out that the City was planning to
expropriate her business and home from a news reporter. No official
notification, just a call frfom a reporter.
I want to talk about how the city ignores it's own official plan to reduce
parking, and how senior city officials extol parking lots as future
development sites and then make deals with condo developers.
I want to talk about how a grandmother is fighting this injustice alone.
The local councillor tells us that the Parking Authority is an independent
agency and that he is not a bully. The rest of council say that they are not
to blame and nor are they bullies. The Mayor also tells us that he is
looking into it and that he is not a bully. Yet they voted unanimously to
allow the Parking Authority to steal Ann's life. When you support a bully
you become a bully.
Ann is standing alone against all these bullies but I ask you to stand with
her and stand up to the City and say enough is enough. That this is wrong
and we will not allow you to bully us any longer.
Please join me tomorrow (TODAY - TUESDAY) at 4 pm at City Hall in meeting
Room B for the Board meeting of the Toronto Parking Authority. Make your
voice heard to help Ann and our City.
Sincerely,
Simon Wookey
simon@wookey.ca
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