Opinion: Toronto’s election has raised issues like affordability, transit, and public safety, but none have grabbed the headlines as much as the fate of a 50-plus year-old amusement park that has been officially closed for more than 10 years.
People who only pay attention to politics during elections — which, for the record, is most people that have a healthy set of priorities — often have an understandably misguided impression of how elections are won.
Put another way, if your hockey team is built on speed and skill, trying to out muscle a bruising defense-focused team is a losing strategy. Success comes from making your opponent play your game. Housing was tied to Ontario Place, when one campaign proposed moving the Science Centre to Ontario Place, opening up land to build housing. Whenseized on this himself, it showed campaigns that Ontario Place can generate more coverage through the Queen’s Park press gallery in addition to the reporters covering City Hall.
Along with masks, vaccines, and toilet paper, public green spaces were something that the public found in short supply during the worst days of the pandemic. A campaign that wants to champion more access to more green spaces in Toronto has Ontario Place ready to serve as the megaphone for their message.
Voters have memories of concerts at the Forum, taking their kids to Children’s Village, or taking in lake views from the West Island. Ontario Place is tangible for people in a way that many of the more complex issues of municipal governance will never be.
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