It's one of those "if you're Canadian, you know what I am talking about and if you are not, it's not really that relevant to your life (except in a theoretical sense) in as much as it's not your nation's largest city currently hamstringing itself."

Toronto elected an idiot as mayor. Now it turns out unexpectedly that the idiot is an idiot. The mayor is threatening the provincial premier that if the province does not make quick with the moola, the mayor will unleash his legions of suburban voters on the side the suburban voters almost certainly going to vote anyway.

You know, given that the PC seem likely to win in the fall, I don't really see the upside for the (Liberal) Premier to spend money here. The 'burbs aren't going to vote for him out of gratitude. It may be strategically better to leave things be and let the effects really start biting after Hudak gets in.