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Anthony Furey: Olivia Chow to spend property taxes on lunch for rich kids

Her universal meal plan is costly vote buying

Do you believe your property taxes should go up to pay for food for middle-class and wealthy families? That’s not a trick question. And there’s no typo in the above line.

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The answer will obviously be a resounding no for most people. Yet that’s the question Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow effectively put to voters on Monday at a re-election campaign announcement.

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Mayor Chow has announced a massive expansion of the current mid-morning snack program that’s currently available to all Toronto school students. That program provides a daily snack — often an individually plastic-wrapped muffin and cut-up veggies or fruit — to over 300,000 students. But in her next term — should she be re-elected — Mayor Chow promises to offer even more and implement a lunch program.

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