Can anyone remember a time in Hamilton history when the city's major business, labour and environmental groups all agreed on anything? Not likely.

But they've all come together now, agreed on one thing — Hamilton cannot turn its back on the provincial government's offer of a $1-billion LRT system.

Spectator city hall reporter Matthew Van Dongen has been keeping a running list of groups supporting LRT. It's an impressive one that includes all of the city's major employers, developers, hospitals, school boards, post-secondary institutions, labour unions and environmental groups. Even the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are on board.

It's a display of unity that is indeed rare, not just for Hamilton, but for any city.

Let's recap exactly who and what these LRT supporters are:

Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, ArcelorMittal Dofasco, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, Mohawk College, the public and Catholic school boards, Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, Environment Hamilton, Sustainable Hamilton Burlington, Hamilton Blue Dot, McMaster and Mohawk students' associations, Hamilton Home Builders Association, Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington, the Hamilton Burlington Society of Architects, Hamilton Academy of Medicine, the YWCA, Vrancor, LIUNA, the Hamilton District Labour Council and the Amalgamated Transit Union.

There are also multiple neighbourhood associations, as well as New Democrat MPs David Christopherson and Scott Duvall, Liberal MPP Ted McMeekin, and NDP MPPs Andrea Horwath, Paul Miller and Monique Taylor, not to mention a laundry list of former mayors and chairs. And not to mention the 300-odd businesses that signed up during a poster campaign several months ago.

Why do all these groups support LRT? Because they know it means jobs for the people who build it, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars worth of development and investment, not to mention tens of millions of dollars of needed infrastructure replacement. And environmentally, LRT is relatively clean.

Yet, our city council appears on the brink of rejecting this $1-billion gift to our community.

That rejection could be set in motion Wednesday when council meets once again to consider whether to submit the LRT project to the province for approval. A "no" vote could effectively put LRT into limbo.

Do the handful of anti-LRT members of city council really believe they know what's better for Hamilton than all of the groups listed above?