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1. Fantino doesn't even live in Toronto for pete's sake. (He lives up in Woodbridge in a sprawling suburban home.)
2. Under Fantino, the police budget has increased by 33% in five years. No other city business unit can make the same claim. Fantino drags his feet at any mention of cost control in fact. He wants helicopters, but wants the cash for them to come from additional police funding, not from his original budget. (So the boys can ride around at night in the whirly-bird and make lots of noise and shine lights all over the damn place.)
3. Fantino tends to utilize the media to advance his own agenda (read empire) For example the way he kept giving speeches to the media during the mayoral race in favour of John Tory and Tory's plan to hire 300 more (un-needed) cops. (Bigger Empire.)
4. The Toronto Police are a beast out of control and Fantino is unable to reign them in. Mind you, he did call in the RCMP to investigate ongoing corruption problems.
5. Fantino has a reputation of NOT working well with other city Managers.
Fantino was an OK chief, but not a great one. I won't loose any sleep cause he's gone.
If he wants, he can run in the next mayoral election and get defeated, or the provincial election for MPP in Woodbridge (he might win that.)
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