The City of Toronto, the
Toronto District School Board
and the Province of Ontario
all claim they don't have a
paltry $12M to stop the
closures of 78 perfectly good
school swimming pools. As a
TDSB trustee in February 2002,
Kathleen Wynne is quoted as
saying, 'the board and the
city continue to work together
to persuade the p
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The City of Toronto, the
Toronto District School Board
and the Province of Ontario
all claim they don't have a
paltry $12M to stop the
closures of 78 perfectly good
school swimming pools. As a
TDSB trustee in February 2002,
Kathleen Wynne is quoted as
saying, 'the board and the
city continue to work together
to persuade the provincial
government to provide funding
for swimming pools in
schools.' Now as provincial
education minister of a
government elected to reverse
former Conservative Premier
Mike Harris' cutbacks and
which also now has a budget
surplus of $2.3 billion in
2007 (approaching $1 billion
this year), she's changed her
tune and says it's up to the
TDSB to find the money to save
the pools. The city claims
poverty too, although it had
no problem coughing up $30M
for one weekend of snow
removal in February - snow
that would have melted in a
few days anyway. The poor kids
who are losing their pools are
mere pawns in this nasty game
of politicking.

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