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On Oct. 2 — determining the climate was right to jump on the global warming bandwagon — Mayor John Tory and council voted unanimously to declare a climate emergency in Toronto.

Not only did Tory move a motion — which was seconded by Mike Layton — but he made it his key item at that council meeting.

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All the 39 bureaucrats currently overseeing the city’s Transform TO plan (the latest name for the climate action plan) had to hear was that council was “naming, framing and deepening” its commitment to protect the city from climate change to know that they had been given the green light to spend much more money to try to reach impossible greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions.

Those efforts have spawned a TransformTO month-long $50,000 consultation process to test market — so to speak — a series of ideas that are sure to make heads explode.

These ideas are contained in an online survey and in a cheesy virtue-signalling 30-page community guide, which is to assist the five groups holding a “community conversation” on climate change this week before the Nov. 11 deadline.