Sunday June 30 23:28 hrs

Det. Chaisson never called back.

And the time came when I found myself staring into the bowels of the City of Toronto’s government, which had its eye fixed on me.
 
The City had commissioned a study of what they called the Queen West Corridor, to “ better understand the elements that give it its heritage character.”  During the course of the study, someone had taken a photograph of my former landlord’s business, and stuck it in this pictorial description of the plan, and its beneficiaries.

And now I was planning to attend a meeting of the Planning and Growth Management Committee of the Toronto City Council, and I needed to know what they knew.  And I had downloaded the PDFs detailing the various aspects of the study that had been commissioned and executed by the Planning and Growth Management Committee.

My new friend Councillor Adam Vaughan was on this Committee.  But the meeting began at 09:00hrs. 

Nothing good could come out of a meeting held at that hour.

At around this point I encountered the consultants who had helped the City of Toronto draft its Official Plan.  One of these consultants was called the Office For Urbanism.

On their website, I was able to see a cheesy corporate video that described one of their sample projects, which was a visioning process for bringing the City of Mississauga into the 21st century.

The video fairly gushed over how the City of Mississauga would be remade into a greener, more inclusive world leading city. 

The Office For Urbanism had a frightening array of services they provided listed on their website.  But something about the slick video failed to engender a sense of trust in the kind of work they did. 

And so I closed their web page and moved on.