Quote, unquote: sticking it to Toronto

Setting aside all the policy justifications and the mug’s game of tallying up the economic spin-offs, the story line here has always put Toronto in the tenuous position of dictating how Ottawa spends. And in the world beyond the 416, no self-respecting national politician – Tory, Liberal or other — can get away with letting Toronto help itself to the contents of the federal coffers. That kind of