Douglas Adams famously noted that mathematics does not work in restaurants.

It also does not work in Toronto City Council, where some thirty-two (or 33?) billion dollars worth of projects are approved, yet have no funding.

It also does not work when John Tory is asked if any increased cost for a one-stop subway to Scarborough, along with any falling ridership projection, would cause him to reconsider the decision. He said something like, “I’m not going to go there.”

I thought Douglas Adams was kidding, but then a few multiple-guests shared-bill meals showed me that he was dead on. A reasonably calculated number will be too low. Just for my share, of course.

I thought at first that John Tory had been misquoted. Nope, it’s another case of Tory Sale.