Political correctness is rearing its ugly head in Toronto yet again with the recent announcement that Mayor Miller and his toadies on City Council intend to cancel the leases with two shooting clubs on city property and enact a by-law prohibiting any new businesses in Toronto from manufacturing or wholesaling firearms. I cannot say I am surprised by this. Toronto has a silly history of imposing inane, politically correct policies including the ban imposed against a home grown pop band, the Barenaked Ladies, from performing on city property on the grounds that their name "objectifies women." The ban was overturned, but not before the Toronto City Council had become a continent-wide laughing stock.

The CHIN Picnic was run off city property by the City Council, because it features a swimwear competition. Young men and women, aspiring fashion models no doubt, model swimwear in this competition. The competition is one of the more popular events I understand. Ah, but this is offensive to the slavish adherents of political correctness, particularly the rabble/babble crowd whose swimsuit sizes typically range from buffalo butt to Rebick rump. The CHIN picnic continues to draw large crowds and the swimwear competition goes on in spite of the politically correct prigs on the Toronto City Council.

A Christmas tree is put up every year at Nathan Phillips Square in front of Toronto City Hall at Christmastime. It was decided by a city bureaucrat that the tree would be referred to as a "multicultural" tree so no one would feel excluded. Mayor Mel Lastman put paid to this foolishness when he pointed out that "anyone can see it is a Christmas tree!" Anyone, it seems, save the politically correct can see this.

Two shooting clubs that have operated for decades on city property without incident are having the rug pulled from under them by Mayor Miller. The club members will no doubt continue their sport, they will have to take up membership in clubs that do not operate on city property. The arbitrary closure of these shooting clubs is supposed to stem the problem of gangs and shootings with black market guns. For anyone who believes this, I have the title to a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.

I have never liked Toronto. I feel like a fish out of water in larger cities. I have no trouble at all in continuing to avoid visiting Toronto. I hope Torontonians finally come to their senses and turf the prize purple twit Miller out of office in the next municipal elections.