Dear Mayor Miller,

I voted for you, and you're 8002% better (I conducted a survey) than Mel Lastman, and you take transit whenever you can (which automatically makes you cool), but Toronto has a serious navel-gazing problem. Specifically, it likes to navel-gaze and then look around at other navels and see how it measures up, even though other navels say "Wow, that's a clean and safe navel you've got there!"

Toronto (according to Toronto media) does things in an attempt to be "world class", whatever that means... so here's a wonderful thing to do to be World Class and get things like the Olympics to come here instead of Beijing:

Ban cars from downtown. Beijing is doing it to clean up their air for the Olympics (which they beat out Toronto for), enlightened places like London charge a fee for driving downtown... San Francisco and even New York are looking at charging downtown drivers.

Want to be World Class? Be at the vanguard of cleaning up the air and making city life more pleasant for your citizens. Then you won't be inside the Green Issue of Vanity Fair, but on the front cover.

Your citizens will elect you over and over, they'll be so grateful for the clean air that you made possible, and that they'll have to worry less about their kids getting asthma and other nasty pulmonary diseases, and the money they're saving by using public transit and avoiding high fuel costs.

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