The city will make a determination about what they want to do, and they'll have to live with the consequences. They made a decision to start from scratch, believing the proposal was badly flawed.
It was not done on partisan lines. Five former Liberal candidates, including a former Liberal candidate who ran against me, agreed with the decision not to proceed with the proposed light rail project, precisely because they felt it was financially irresponsible. So this was not an issue decided on party lines.
From my perspective, we promised a new era of accountability. We promised we would step in and make the difficult decisions.
If I had wanted to do the easy thing, I would go along to get along, but I wasn't elected to rubber-stamp anything. I wasn't appointed President of the Treasury Board to be a yes-man. Treasury Board, under my leadership, exercised real financial controls, and I think that's what taxpayers expected us to do.