City of Toronto understated extent of sick days bank liability

With the blast marks from this summer's civic strike still clearly visible on the tattered remains of Miller's mayoralty, the relevation today that the future sick leave payouts actually totaled $450 million, not $250 million, is going to all but destroy what is left of Miller

The news is that the City knew this before the strike but issued no public correction.

This is bizarre. The entire strike was based around abolishing the sick days bank as it was a large unfunded liability the City could not afford. Why not issue the larger number leading into the strike, in order to solidify public opinion?

Mayoral candidate to be George Smitherman is going to have a field day with this. Smitherman is the man to beat, I think.

I have been saying for years that the left wing on council is going to get trounced one day by a right-wing backlash similar to the rise of Mike Harris provincially, and Toronto is going to suffer in other ways because of it. I jokingly say 'Rob Ford: Mayor' to get across how bad that'll be. Ford refuses to keep a constituency office, citing the need to be frugal. Scared yet?

Miller's people best get their act together.